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A BREAST CANCER PREVIEW

By Charlie Sykes

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Want a taste of what Obamacare would be like? Look no further than the latest developments on mammograms.

A government panel's decision to toss out long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening is causing an uproar, and well it should. This episode is an all-too-instructive preview of the coming political decisions about cost-control and medical treatment that are at the heart of ObamaCare....

... every Democratic version of ObamaCare makes this task force an arbiter of the benefits that private insurers will be required to cover as they are converted into government contractors. What are now merely recommendations will become de facto rules, and under national health care these kinds of cost analyses will inevitably become more common as government decides where finite tax dollars are allowed to go.

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  1. Mombo Napolitano - Nov 19, 2009 10:38 AM

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    As our gullible lib friends will point out "there are no death panels" but as we have known all along, while not specifically stated, there will be in fact defacto death panels.

  2. goodguy - Nov 19, 2009 11:30 AM

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    I saw a docter's perspective on this earlier this week. Her comment was the medical community was never behind the previous government recommendations of doing mammograms at age 40 for women with no risk factors. The science did not support that view because womens breasts are more dense at that age and too many false positive occur. Beginning at age 50 and every 2 years instead of every year appears to be the appropriate level of testing for women with no risk factors based on science.

  3. WiFritz - Nov 19, 2009 11:44 AM

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    LOL at goodguy's "science".

    There is not one doctor on Obama's death panel. This was a financial recommendation, nothing more.

  4. Bill - Nov 19, 2009 12:09 PM

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    Could have predicted this post by Charlie soon as I saw the report.

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