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There’s more than snake oil in that health reform bill

Eureka! I've found it. It is the key to the federal vaults, and in there is treasure for you and me to shovel up and haul off.

Thanks to a couple of compliant senators, that health care reform bill nobody has taken time to read contains a provision forcing the public option and private insurers to cover, wait for it, healing by prayer. Maybe you think Christian Science, but I think instant shaman.

You get the sniffles, I pray for you. I get a cold, you pray for me. And the feds pay us for our efforts. What could be better than that?

I think for once I might be able to ignore the niggling little fact this would fold, spindle and mutilate the establishment clause of the First Amendment.

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