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Should prayers be covered?
The Christian Science Church believes that prayer treatment is an effective alternative to doctors and other medical care.
[there is currently] a proposal in the [health care] legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church’s prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses.
the proposal would essentially put Christian Science prayer treatments on the same footing as science-based medical care
Phil Davis has been trained as a practitioner and still occasionally treats the sick. “We’ll talk to them about their relationship to God,” he said. “We’ll talk to them about citations or biblical passages they might study. We refer to it as treatment.”
During the day, Davis may see multiple patients and pray for them at different moments. He charges them $20 to $40 for the day, saying, “I think that it would be considered modest by any standard.”
