There was an interesting article printed in the Los Angeles Times today that highlights a wrestling in our society over the merits, value and legitimacy of treatment for health problems through prayer.
Three prominent senators inserted a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill that would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses. I’ll let you read the article yourself about the debate surrounding this provision.
In my own prayers, I pray that our country more largely recognizes the benefit of prayer. The present healthcare crisis is not primarily a financial one, but a moral and spiritual one. Our present system is crying out for a moral and spiritual overhaul that elevates the kind of healthcare people receive. And spiritual treatment is a viable and proven form of care.
Health is more than a medically manicured body. It involves living a spiritually responsible life, which spiritual treatment can help people find.
Millions of prayer-motivated people have proven the benefit of prayer to meet health needs over the centuries. We may all have plenty to learn about how to meet all health needs consistently and constantly solely through prayer, but the success to date and the benefits already garnered merit continued support of prayer-based treatment.
It certainly is monumentally less expensive than conventional medical care.
If everyone sincerely turned to God first before racing to the doctor or to the emergency room when a trouble developed, there would be far less visits to medical facilities and far fewer burdensome medical bills.
Prayer works. It heals. It brings huge benefits to society.
The future of Christian Science treatment is in no way tied to the outcome of a healthcare bill in Congress, but it would benefit our population to recognize the benefits of prayer and use it more frequently for healthcare needs. A provision in the healthcare bill recognizing the value of spiritual treatment could be a step in that direction.
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thank you for this!! i am glad to hear they inserted the line about C.S. treatment into the healthcare bill. wonderful news! do you have a link to the article? or how would i go about searching for that on Google? i’m actually not very good at knowing what to type on a Google box – i always get 2 years old news!! 🙁
Evan, can you post a link to the article you referenced?
The links are in the article above. The highlighted words. I’ll make it more obvious…
Thanks, Evan, for sharing your thoughts about this. I had already read the article, and much of what you shared about it had come to my thought as well. May all mankind be blessed with effective, prayer-based health care.
Evan, our present system is crying out for results — speedy, satisfactory, and cost-effective results — from whatever direction.
Why such the double standard for CS practitioners Evan? One hundred times out of a hundred, you reasonably expect a can of corn to be botulism free. And 100% of the time you reasonably expect that the first time you take your car in for a brake job will be the only time.
The list could go on and on with all the things a CS practitioner can reasonably expect 100% of the time when it comes to purchasing all the needful things, like cans of corn and brake jobs.
Instead of seeing this as aggressive mental suggestion, pray to get better results Evan. The rest will follow.
To above,
As far as I know, everyone who sincerely cares, whether in the medical or the spiritual field, is trying for the very best results they can. We all can do better…