Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing?

The question is Should Universal Health Care Cover Faith Healing?The question is analyzed in the article in the TIME magazine by Amy Sullivan. There are advocates for doctors, insurance companies, patients, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, big business and small business. And for faith healers too. Practitioners of Christian Science as well as other alternative therapies — including acupuncture, biofeedback, herbal medicine, holistic medicine and Reiki, a Japanese healing and relaxation technique — are intent on influencing the coming health-care-reform process. Sullivan states "their goal is to encourage Congress to think of health care as more than just medical care — and to allow insurance companies to provide coverage for their holistic treatments."Additionally, The Christian Scientists have had some success in this area in the past. Founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, the Church of Christ, Scientist has worked for nearly a century with state licensing boards and legislatures to obtain recognition or acceptance for its practitioners, who treat injured or ill individuals by praying for them. If the church could design a universal health-care plan for the country, it would allow — but not require — insurance companies to provide coverage for practitioners, nurses and nursing facilities.

Questions :
1) Do you believe there has been a vast increase of more people heading to religion to help solve the failure of the economic problem in America?

2) The latest evidence of religion helping patients dates back in 1886. Can it still relieve the stress that so many people desire?