why not faith healing instead of reform?
Jonathan Turley loves bizarre tidbits of lawyerly stuff. The constitutional scholar has had a lot to say about torture ( unlike the constitutional scholar currently residing in the White House who has generally ignored the Constitution when convenient just as his most recent predecessor did) among other things.
Turley’s Dec. 19 blog post notes the following: One of the provisions proposed for the current health care bill has received little attention in the media: mandatory coverage for faith healers. Christian Science advocates are pushing for the inclusion in the bill under a provision barring discrimination against religious based healing. They previously won support from both Republicans and Democrats for the astonishing provision that would require insurance companies to pay religious healers in the same way as radiologists.
Okay then. Who needs actual doctors when we can have faith healers. I am all for prayer and the laying on of hands for the sick. But it’s simply not a substitution for actual medical care. Blasphemous as this might sound, even Christ didn’t heal all the sick. But he did note that God helps those who help themselves.
Get health care reform passed, sans faith healing. That would be helping ourselves. God has bigger issues to deal with. Really.—VAB
