| BrentB 2006-03-31, 5:11 pm |
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Kathleen wrote:
> Pray that we never get sick and have to turn to an insurance company
> for help.
>
> http://blogs.courant.com/travel_col..._pray.html#more
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> Let Us Pray
>
> By some arid accounts, prayer may not help if you are sick. A new study
> shows that praying over a sick loved one doesn't really assist the
> poor person get better.
>
> Well, pray anyway. Praying is more valuable than what it was being
> measured for. Praying serves the soul more than the body.
>
> And, at the same time, as regards health we must pray fervently, no
> matter what the research shows:
>
> Pray that we never get sick or injured and have to meet the costs of
> care ourselves.
>
> Pray that we never get sick and have to turn to an insurance company
> for help.
>
> Pray that ...
>
> ... we have an insurance program to turn to for help, even if they are
> reluctant to deliver it.
>
> Pray that the employer has not withdrawn the health coverage or reduced
> it to nothing or saddled the victim with fees so high as to make you
> sicker than the illness.
>
> Pray that you do not need medications and pharmaceuticals that are not
> covered by the plan or for which the co-pay is the price of a small
> automobile.
>
> Pray that the medications or treatments or medicines enjoy the blessing
> of the holy rollers who would sooner see us dead than offending their
> steel principles which they care more for than they do for people.
>
> Pray that the holy rollers stay away from our deathbeds, marriage beds
> or other excruciatingly personal locales where they insist on invading
> to impose their will upon us.
>
> Pray that they will get out of the way of treatment and techniques that
> will lead to extended life and cures for illness.
>
> Pray that the loathsome politicians, toadying to the monied moguls of
> insurance, pharmaceuticals, the medical system and the dark-souled
> moralists will not harm us too much in their zeal to pander to their
> contributors at the expense of human beings.
>
> All that, and pray, too, for the good health and peace of spirit of
> even the moguls of medicine, insurance, scence, "religion" and,
> yes, politics that they not ever have to endure the afflictions they
> have created for the rest of us.
>
> Thus praying, we demonstrate our superiority to our superiors.
>
> March 31, 2006 | Permalink
da** thats a good post! thanks, and if I'm not mistaken those prayers
are about to be answered.
ps thanks for the Dr Burgdorfer name drop. For some reason it's pissing
people off 
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