"Not our wives, mistresses or daughters, you stupid powerless suckers."
Posted on 02/22/2010 12:43:26 PM PST by decimon
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Some U.S. states have begun using controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines to stop offering routine mammograms for uninsured women in their 40s, a survey by the Avon Foundation for Women released on Monday found.
The Avon survey of more than 150 breast cancer health educators and providers from 48 states and Washington, D.C. found a quarter of the states have either cut or eliminated screening mammography and other early detection services for women under 50.
The survey renewed concerns that the guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which raised the recommended age for women to start getting screened for breast cancer to 50, might be used to deny health coverage for women.
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States slights ping.
How can a state cut back on this? I would imagine that mammograms are like any other medical procedure and if you were willing to pay someone to do one for you they would.
well, that sure didn’t take long, did it?
Now what recourse do women have for suing if they are denied and find out too late they have cancer
I think they are cutting government provided screenings.
The take away lesson is remember how Obama said that advisory to cut out mammograms for younger women was meaningless? Without them even taking overt healthcare yet, it is being used to justify eliminatinvg mammograms.
When the government controls everything it will get much worse.
You are correct.
Survey Says!
No Mammograms!
We knew this was another Obama administration lie the moment we heard it.
"Not our wives, mistresses or daughters, you stupid powerless suckers."
Kathleen Sibelius, the Abortion Ghoul of Wichita
Note that by the upper age range, white women will killed
at twice the rate of others under King Obama's directive.
OBAMANOMICS--TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
Sen. Scot Brown's number is 202-224-5443
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.
Tyrants---a patient years ago I worked on was 30 years old and dying of breast Ca. My friends wife had a breast cancer detected when she was 45 yrs old. How many women would lose their lives unnecessarily by these draconian measures. Screw them---let women get screened when they want to at any age.
Great. Let's all get nose-to-toes Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans every year for early detection of cancer elsewhere in the body. It only costs $6000 per test. We can scan every adult in the nation for only $1.2 Trillion dollars per year.
Meanwhile, people die of heart disease and stroke far more frequently than cancer.
thanks decimon
You’re welcome.
I usually omit that to not keep bumping my threads.
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