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Below The Beltway: Health Care Reform Bill To Allow Coverage For “Prayer Treatments”
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Like Grape Nuts, "Christian Scientists" are neither
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CS and Health care...Church and State? http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-health-religion3-2009nov03,0,6879249,full.story 17 days ago |
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yikes http://bit.ly/3Is80C 22 days ago |
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WHOAH - tax $$ paying for prayer as healthcare? http://bit.ly/3Is80C 23 days ago |
Health Reform Bill to Allow Insurance Payments For Prayer Healings
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Via Kevin Drum, I have learned that current Senate version of the health reform bill would provide for insurance payments for Christian Science prayer treatments–and probably other “spiritual” treatments as well.
Reporting from Washington – Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.
The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the ...
Health Care Reform Bill To Allow Coverage For “Prayer Treatments”
Below The Beltway —
Apparently, our representatives in Washington are embracing pseudo-science:
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.
The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the support of Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and the late Edward M. Kennedy, both of Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist.
The measure would put ...
Like Grape Nuts, "Christian Scientists" are neither
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
This is a terrible idea: The measure would put Christian Science prayer treatments -- which substitute for or supplement medical treatments -- on the same footing as clinical medicine. While not mentioning the church by name, it would prohibit discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare." It would have a minor effect on the overall cost of the bill -- Christian Science is a small church, and the prayer treatments can cost as little as $20 a day. But it has nevertheless stirred an intense controversy over the constitutional separation of church ...
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pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... here is an extremely stupid idea and evidence that those calling for health care reform to put an emphasis on science-based medicine aren’t blowing smoke out their asses: There’s a small provision in the health care bill that would cover Christian Scientists who want to pay for prayer. ...
Orrin Hatch and Other People's Money -- By: Andrew Stuttaford
The Corner on National Review Online —
Via the LA Times:
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses. The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the support of Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and the late Edward M. Kennedy, both of Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist. The measure would put Christian Science prayer ...
The New Health Care Bill Might Not Cover Women's Health But Orrin Hatch Insists On Paying For Voodoo Sessions
DownWithTyranny! —
... A few days ago the L.A. Times reported on a provision slipped into the Senate bill that "would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses." Orrin Hatch is behind the provision, but he was aided by Kennedy and Kerry, the senators from Massachusetts, which is where Christian Science has its world headquarters. ...
