AND IS MY WITCH DOCTOR COVERED…?
November 3rd, 2009Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is beyond rebuke, but senators Orin Hatch (R-Utah) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) deserve a serious thrashing for even attempting to put witch doctors on the payroll of private health insurance providers. The Flying Spaghetti Monster’s tendrils are all aquiver at the prospect.
From The Los Angeles 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.
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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 and state, and the possibility that other churches might seek reimbursements for so-called spiritual healing.
Can I get a Woo Woo?
it is harder for them to find someone qualified to pray for them.
Shalom Ryan,
I imagine that any Christian Scientist (can we say oxymoron?) is qualified to do the praying.
B’shalom,
Jeff