Hatch: Insurers Should Pay for Spiritual Healing

"Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the health care overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses. The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, with the support of Democrats John Kerry and the late Edward Kennedy ... [The measure] has stirred controversy over the constitutional separation of church and state and the possibility that other churches might seek reimbursements for so-called spiritual healing."