So a government panel now says routine mammograms are not necessary for women 40-49.
My late mother, who died at 59 after a 15-year battle with breast cancer would completely disagree if she were still around to hear the news.
So this is how the government will save money for its managed government health program. It will just scale back life-saving tests and procedures.
The only reason my mother had a few extra years was the early diagnosis of her breast cancer about 1972.
Before the onset of the beloved government health care option we're already seeing that the government can't deliver enough flu vaccine and now this insane advice to women. Stay tuned, it will only get worse.
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Health care "option" is the government buzz word meaning "requirement". Everyone must have health care under this plan or pay a fine. Please do not perpetuate the falacy that Americans have a "choice" in their health care. They do not.
Once this happens, hundreds of thousands of businesses will dump their employees onto the government "option," which will, of course, bankrupt this country worse that it already is.
Setting aside the pros or cons of the mammogram decision, do not for a moment think we don't have rationed care now. It's simply rationed by the insurance companies, not the government. Try to get a flu shot and have Blue Cross pay for it. They won't. Try to see a psychologist instead of a psychiatrist for mental health care. Not covered. Try to get many things that will prevent, rather than treat, illness and find out how rationed the current system is.
The CEOs of Aetna and the other robber-baron insurance companies must be clicking their heels that so many gullible people think the government is out to kill the citizenry. To the previous poster's point, rationing is going on every day in this country, except that it's being done by the Aetnas of the world so that their chiefs can make $24M a year.
If the government is so evil, please refuse your Social Security and Medicare after you've exhausted what you've paid in, which won't take long. And then take the tea bags out of your ears and get your policy info from somebody other than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
Gees, Brown, chill a little.
Just a note, everyone is billing this on the basis that it is going to "save" money.
Note: The Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last year. That was Barack Obama's very example.
Just be honest about it. Anyone who thinks government health care, which, by the way, will not cover all people as it stands, will save money, needs to take the community organizer pamphlets out of their ears and get a clue.
The bills proposed by Congress do not cover all people, do not save money and will only make the system worse.
And, as I wrote before, will take all the benefits coming to me because if the government had invested the money they confiscated from me and my employer over my 45-year employment career and invested it instead of spending it, it would never have run out.
There fault, not mine. So keep working so you can make up for their malfeasance and keep paying me what I have coming.....
I told my Congressman 20 years ago that if they would offer me, and others a chance, to get back everything we had put into the system up to then (without interest) and let us invest it for ourselves I would gladly sign a paper saying I would never come after the government for anything.
Crickets chirping.......
Brown, by the way, I had Aetna insurance for the last 25 years of my employment career and have nothing negative to say about how they covered my bills, illnesses, etc. Not one.
Brown, one more thing.
I work at the time Rush Limbaugh is on, so don't hear him and I'm not a fan of Glenn Beck. A little over the top for me.
I'm more of a Jon Stewart fan.
As a journalist who's interviewed several women who've had breast cancer, I can tell you that with almost all of them it began with a strange lump on their breast--making the whole self-examinations-aren't-necessary laughable.
Sorry Jim, I had Aetna for several years before having to switch to BCBS of Delaware, and I can't agree with you. All I can say is neither Aetna nor BCBS were without problems. Certainly, they're not so perfect that I wouldn't give the feds a shot at my business, or a least throw em into the "open enrollment" crap shoot. Might keep em more on their toes. By the way, I had to switch from Aetna so I could keep my doctor. (I guess the government isn't the only one who would take that choice away from me, either.)
Wild.
The funny thing, is that here in Canada, where mammograms are free to all, both rich and poor, and encouraged - even by the odd advertisements - the medical establishment has trouble getting women to go and take them!
Yes, the government does say you get one every X years (assuming you actually go take it!), but that timing was determined by medical experts, not politicians.
Mind you if your doctor says you NEED one, at any time, then you can have one.
Colonoscopomies are also available, and even more so refused.
I went for a prostrate test myself, when I hit 51.... The part that pissed me off, is that only part of the cost was covered. I had to pay $35. (Tho I hear the test is worth nearly $100.) I still found it discriminatory.
Along with several of my friends who have had breast cancer prior to age 50, I thought of your mother. Talk about targeting women...and now pap tests too??? Is this how Hitler started by targeting certain groups of people? Hang on girls, this is only the beginning!
This study was commissioned by the government, but the panel consisted of esteemed who's who in the medical industry. The most messed up thing about their results? They were gleaned from the exact, same study that determined years ago women should get exams starting at age 40.
They used old data!
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