{"id":73539,"date":"2009-12-09T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010466895_healthcareupdate.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:05:24","slug":"health-care-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/73539","title":{"rendered":"Health-care update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only true reform is single-payer option<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is now crunch time for our U.S. members of Congress to show their core values about representing the vast majority of us who want and need real health-care affordability and access [“Senate reaches deal to strike public option from health bill,” page one, 9].<\/p>\n

I, along with my wife, children, friends and relatives, will be watching very closely, as our elected senators and representatives decide whom they stand with.<\/p>\n

Will they stand with the voters who put them in office, or the behemoth insurance companies that are stuffing their pockets with money and\/or promising massive payouts behind closed doors, after leaving office.<\/p>\n

I know the only true reform comes through the single-payer option, with a distant second place being a strong public option. Anything else is a sellout, and an outrageous abandonment of my family, relatives, friends and fellow countrymen.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gary Ochsner, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

A Christian Scientists\u2019 spiritual health care<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article \u201cChristian Scientists lobby to add prayer to health bill\u201d [News, Nov. 26] seems to conclude with the impression that Christian Science healing is ineffective.<\/p>\n

Those who have never witnessed or experienced physical healing through the study of Christian Science may be persuaded to place it in the category of questionable faith healing or mere positive thinking, which it definitely is not.<\/p>\n

When I was 12, my mother was diagnosed, treated and labeled incurable by three independent medical specialists. Our family then witnessed her complete healing solely by Christian Science treatment recommended by a neighbor.<\/p>\n

For more than 50 years since then, I have relied solely on Christian Science to maintain my own health because of its dependable results when correctly adhered to. Because of this, I have no recorded medical history.<\/p>\n

Some of the healings I\u2019ve experienced through Christian Science treatment are blood poisoning, broken arm and foot, abscessed tooth, influenza, migraine, impaired eyesight, dislocated hip, heart problem and back injury. There have been a multitude of others, which proves to me and to those who have witnessed it, Christian Science offers a remarkable, Bible-based system of spiritual health care.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Julie Foskett, Edmonds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only true reform is single-payer option It is now crunch time for our U.S. members of Congress to show their core values about representing the vast majority of us who want and need real health-care affordability and access [“Senate reaches deal to strike public option from health bill,” page one, 9]. I, along with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}