And I was complaining about the subluxations
I went nuts when my healthcare provider (back when I was employed by a company, and therefore deserved a healthcare provider) started paying for chiropractic “treatments” (here, previously.) The theory of chiropractic is that all disease is caused by “subluxations” of the spine. Something something energy lines. But the real reason that this was covered, presumably, was that the co-pay was $40 for each of the patient’s visits, and the practitioner was paid $50 per visit, which works out to a rather good bargain in for-profit medical care.
Then medical plans started covering acupuncture. And, maybe, apothecary visits. And, whatever whatever. And now the Senate healthcare bill …
For real …
Wants to cover prayer. Prayer. The patient can have a Christian Science practitioner paid $20 – $40 per day to pray for him. Gah! I so fucking wish I were making this up.
The bill was inserted by Orrin Hatch (booga booga booga!)
Oh, and John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. WTF?
And politicians wonder at my, and my fellow skeptics’ — um — skepticism (?) of how their sponsors affect their votes, and how their personal religious views affect their votes, and how we can’t trust a motherfucking word that comes out of their dripping mouths.
Which leads to one last observation: Damn, is this the best work-at-home opportunity I’ve ever heard of. Except I would be mortified to charge somebody $20 – $40 to pretend to pray for him. But that’s really not what I do best. How about this: I will charge any interested reader $10 per day to write a short blog post about how awesome he is. I’ll also cross-post it to Twitter. I will also implore, in every post, that all relevant authorities, deities, forces, energies, dragons, readers, and teapots also believe that the reader is cool. But don’t expect me to spend more than a few minutes at it per day: I wouldn’t want you to think I was in the charity business for charitable reasons.
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