In my last diary, some readers wouldn't believe it.
People love their own ideologies. They love them often enough more then they love truth. Truth can be messy. Many of us who see universal health care as a moral imperative sometimes think it's worth almost anything to get there. Almost.
Good health care isn't cheap, and any plan we create should consider costs, consider "rationing", and consider science. We cannot waste money on practices that are not supported by science. That is why the current attempt to force equal treatment of faith healing and other quackery is a deal breaker.
Some of my readers were not satisfied with the citations I provided. I'm not sure whether they were just being contrary, or they truly believed that I somehow conceived a way to "fake" a link to a "doctored" bill, but now you have to doubt the Chicago Tribune as well. Many of us in the medical blogosphere have been keeping a close eye on this issue, but apparently readers of a major blog collaborative have trouble believing that other blogs also might know something.
If we allow ourselves to be indifferent to this, we may loose health care reform. Even if it passes, this type of language destroys the foundation of our health care system. If we provide care to everyone, and that care is based not on science but on ideology, we have simply traded one immoral system for another. Universal coverage for faith healing is universal coverage for nothing.