This article fails to mention that a government requirement to buy health insurance means that a Christian Science buyer would be required to pay for insurance they would never use, unless some accommodation is made to pay for their kind of treatment. This is just common sense to include a nondiscrimination clause. The same goes for medicare. Christian Scientists pay in to medicare for years. Shouldn't some kind of reimbursement be made for their taxpaying all those years? The dollar amounts mentioned in this article are indeed negligible compared to medical costs. That's probably why insurance companies and medicare and the IRS are very willing to accommodate them. This article is promoting a double standard because when a child dies under medical care the parents still receive bills--much higher than the ones mentioned here.