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Healthcare Bill Boosts Pay for Prayer

Insurance firms urged to cover praying healers

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 3, 2009 5:34 AM CST

(Newser) – A little-noticed provision in a Senate version of the pending health care bill would require insurance companies to consider paying for prayer as a medical expense. The addition was inserted by Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and backed by Democrats John Kerry and Ted Kennedy...   Read full story »

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