Lexington: Bah, humbug

摘要

In an odd footnote to the health-care debate, Christian Scientists are lobbying to make health insurers pay for "faith healing". Mary Baker Eddy, the sect's 19th-century founder, taught that sickness is a delusion and prayer the best medicine. Her followers sometimes pay others to pray for them instead of popping pills, and they think insurers should pick up the tab. This idea is unlikely to become law, but a former presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, thinks it respectable enough to merit his support.