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There is a great amount of information on the Federal Committee office web site and I encourage you to peruse it. The article below on insurance is just one of the many items that are presented on this web site. The comments from readers and the answers from the Federal office that follow this article are very informative.
Insurance Plans Covering Christian Science Care
Various federal, state, and private health insurance plans provide for the reimbursement of Christian Science nursing care and practitioner treatment. Additionally, 17 Christian Science nursing facilities across the country are Medicare providers, which means individuals who have Medicare Part A can receive reimbursement at those facilities. § Read the rest of this entry…
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A guest post written by Robert B. Clark, Committee on Publication for Florida
Michio Kaku is a quantum physicist and co-founder of “string field theory”. When he was 16 he built a particle accelerator in his mother’s garage, blowing out the electrical circuitry in the house and causing his mother to ask, “Why couldn’t I have a son who plays baseball?”
His new book, Physics of the Future, spells out some amazing technological wonders that may await us in the not so distant future. How about accessing the internet through your contact lenses? Blink…and you’re online. § Read the rest of this entry…
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A guest post written by Stewart Moses
Can there ever be a time when it is too late to pray to God for help? We may be tempted to answer “yes”, but I had an experience in college that challenges that notion.
This occurred after a midterm exam in one of the more difficult courses that I took at school. I always did a lot of praying before exams to help me study effectively and to get rid of the common fears and anxieties that come with tests. I usually prayed to know that I reflected the one perfect, Divine Mind, namely God, and that this same Mind had created the exam (through the teacher) and was going to take the exam (through me). § Read the rest of this entry…
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by Don Ingwerson
Article first published on Blogcritics.
Now that Christmas is over, I’ve been thinking about how giving and happiness relate. Not so long ago our family decided to adopt a family in need during the holiday season. It took a while to find a community agency that had a list of needy families, but with persistence we got the name of a family and the names and ages of the children. Christmas Eve we took our gifts to our adopted family.
They spoke little English and we spoke little Spanish, so communication was more felt than spoken. After we presented our gifts and visited for a while we prepared to leave, but this family invited us to join them in a community dinner around an outside fire pit. Sharing in that dinner, I felt that we had received more than we had given, and I deeply felt the good for my fellow man. Each Christmas, I find my thought returning to the family we shared Christmas with that evening. Yet, there have been other times when giving didn’t result in the same sense of satisfaction or happiness, and I wondered why.
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The following are just a few of the current topics you’ll find on the Christian Science Committee on Publication Federal Office Web Site. If you would like to check it out click here.
We’ve fielded several questions asking how the Supreme Court’s involvement in determining the constitutionality of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will affect the work of the Federal Office. In a Q&A session, Manager Gary Jones responds to some of these queries. The first question is: “How likely is it that the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the health care reform law?”
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A guest post written by Ken Girard, Committee on Publication for Massachusetts
Approximately one-fourth of the [United States] population are baby-boomers. That’s right—one-fourth. There are 76,000,000 of us (yes, I’m one…too). That’s an enormous market.
Where are they headed? Perhaps the larger curiosity is, where is their money headed?
According to The Washington Post (“AGING AMERICA: Baby boomers expected to spend tens of billions in pursuit of youthfulness”), there are immense financial gains to be made by an industry that is focused on helping boomers live up to the image of a forever-youthfulness that we were raised on. § Read the rest of this entry…
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Guest post written by Curtis Wahlberg
Probably no one would dispute that individuals today have an unprecedented opportunity to influence other lives – through a video that goes viral, a tweet that ripples across the country, or a posting on any of countless websites. This power is difficult to measure, but experience suggests it’s significant. Individuals shape groups. And individual communications shape group thinking and behavior.
On occasion, I have sent an email resulting in better lives for others and subsequently for myself. I’ve also sent emails I later regretted. And this is different than say a regrettable comment at the dinner table, where there’s a contained environment for explaining yourself or for receiving correction. § Read the rest of this entry…
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by Don Ingwerson
Article first published on Blogcritics
Over the holidays my wife and I had the opportunity to have our three grandsons stay with us for several days. On the last evening of the stay, Asher, age 4, bolted up in the middle of the night very upset about a commercial he had seen on TV. My wife and I are careful to monitor the programs they watch, and we could not recall a commercial that would have upset him. He wanted to be in our bed and asked us to read to him, which we did for several hours. The next night his parents had the same experience in the middle of the night. I’m still trying to understand what upset him, and why he interpreted the commercial as he did. As I was thinking of Asher and his sensitivity, I realized that we are all sensitive to things that we see and do, and are affected in different ways, which led me to explore ways of keeping these threats to a minimum.
Sensitivity to perceived threats can be important to survival. Esther Entin, M.D. is a pediatrician and clinical associate professor of Family Medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine and writes for TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com. She pointed out in a recent article in the Atlantic that our body and brain are designed to recognize and react to threats to our well-being. This is an important capacity that increases our survival in or adjustment to adverse circumstances. But how do we correct these situations when these alarm and response systems become over-sensitized or overly reactionary as a result of something that appears very real? § Read the rest of this entry…
Guest post written by Virginia Castor Early
The following blog by an intern provides some insight into how she felt working on the health bill in Washington D.C. I think you’ll enjoy the passion and understanding this intern has.
In many ways, I was exactly like every other college student in Washington, D.C., last summer. I interned on behalf of a cause that I care strongly about.
But unlike many other interns thronging the halls of the House and Senate office buildings, I didn’t work for an elected official or an agency, but rather for my church.
Why intern for my church on Capitol Hill, you might ask? What role does my Christian Science faith have in what is happening there? § Read the rest of this entry…
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A guest post written by Robert B. Clark, Committee on Publication for Florida
I live in an area with a lot of wonderful older people, “seniors” as they’re often called. I love seeing seniors walking on the beach, fishing off the piers, driving convertibles, playing golf and generally enjoying life in their later years. These are the true “senior moments”.
So it bothers me deeply when I read about Alzheimer’s disease threatening to demote seniors from their well-earned place and status to a lower level where their “senior-hood” can become a curse rather than a blessing. § Read the rest of this entry…
