Can you believe this article?
Actually, you don't even have to read the whole thing, if you don't want to. I recommend against it. It’s depressing.
Just read this bit here:
Church lobbyists are now asking that the state allow insurance plans to reimburse prayer practitioners, who can charge $20 to $50 for a day's worth of prayer, says Wanda Jane Warmack, the church's legislative manager.
Should they be successful, I propose that we all convert to Christian Science...become "Certified Prayer Practitioners" and then, when called to the bedside of an ailing child, begin babbling randomly over the child for a period of time, then eventually fall into an imitation of an epileptic seizure, and then "Come out of it" and proclaim:
"God told me to take this child to a hospital immediately. That'll be $50 please."
We can then take the $50 and donate it to an organization that promotes science education.
Sheesh.
In a few years, we could have people looking up the Procedure Code for "casting out the Spinal Meningitis Deamon".
Medical reimbursement rates:
Diagnosing a demonic possession: 100% compensation
Casting out of deamon: 90% compensation
dispersion of a demonic miasma: (elective procedure) 40% compensation.
The comfort of knowing that your insurance company will pay the cost of having an all-loving all-powerful being protect you in a hostile, corrupt, and incomprehensible universe filled with demons and goblins who are relentlessly stalking your immortal soul: Priceless.
(Hat Tip: Denialism.com)