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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:17 PM
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Health Care Reform bills would pay tax money for faith healing.
:grr:

Health reform bills would cover Christian Science "treatment."

Current versions of the leading health reform bills contain
convoluted language that would force insurance companies to pay for
prayer services rendered by Christian Science practitioners. Sections
125 of H.R. 3200
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:H.R.3200: and
3103(a)(1)(d) of S. 1679
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.1679: would prohibit
payers from denying payment for "religious or spiritual health care"
for services that the Internal Revenue Service allows as deductible.
Christian Science "treatment" is the only prayer-based service that
is tax-deductible.
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:18 PM
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1. Good gravy gosh..........
Who the hell put that bit of nonsense in there? Another sop to the lunatic right?
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:21 PM
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3. Probably Orrin Hatch.
He put laws in to protect supplement makers from being regulated like drug makers are.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:27 PM
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6. I wouldn't doubt it was one of ours.
There are a lot of lefties that believe in magic crystals, healing herbs, and healing energies. Both sides have idiots on that front.
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:19 PM
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2. Maybe they should pay for Medical Marijuana.
It's also considered "Alternative Treatment".
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:24 PM
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4. Ahh, the republican health care plan.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:26 PM
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5. Man, I had no idea those hundreds of Republican ammendments were so off the wall!
never mind, I knew.

On to the Conference to get rid of some of that sludge!
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