Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments

Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments — latimes.com

Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.

The placebo effect is powerful…

Clunker pickups traded for new pickups

AP IMPACT: Clunker pickups traded for new pickups – Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – The most common deals under the government’s $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.

 

The auto maker lobbyists demanded that there be no restrictions except “better gas mileage.” You reckon they wanted to get rid of all those pickups moldering on the lots?