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. Full Story »
Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - via Memeorandum
The LA Times has cooked the debate for the sake of the story. All too common in political news, perspectives get the limelight and the search for truth and fact is lazily abandoned. For this story, the reporters could have culled from the lists of neglect cases and commendably pointless studies over the years that have repeatedly shown no connection between "faith" treatments and recovery. Instead, the first person they quote is a Christian Science Church official purporting that prayer is, in fact, health care. Wasteful.
It is good journalism in alarming the public that the health care bill contains a provision that flies in the face of scientific medical practice, violates the separation of church and state, is stupid, and costs taxpayers.
Dr. Norman Fost, a pediatrician and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin, said the measure went against the goal of reducing healthcare costs by improving ... More »
Michael McConnell, who heads the Stanford University Constitutional Law Center, said that “as long as patients are the ones who choose, and religious choices are ... More »
For all those who are interested in how our governemnt sells out our values behind closed dorrs and why you should not vote for 1900 pages of drivel being passed off as heal;thcare - this is it. Nutritional supplements are not included and all medicines are derived from them but an african witch doctor can mumble over you with a bunch of beads and deductible. It's ctiminal it's even in the IRS code.
This story gives alot of facts via quotes but i would have liked to hear more of the journalist's voice. I understand that it is important to remain unbiased however it would have been more interesting to read if the author used their own words to tell the story. I think that overall the story is very relevant in that it relates to a popularly discussed phenomenon and offered an unoriginal view that i have not heard yet.
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