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Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Nov 04, 2009 09:43pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state.
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 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 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." |
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