GOP: Mammography Recommendations a Sign of Things to Come

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cp418
cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
edited June 2014 in Advocacy

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mammography-recommendations-form-government-rationing-critics/story?id=9150471

GOP: Mammography Recommendations a Sign of Things to Come

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9148879

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  • Colette37
    Colette37 Member Posts: 387
    edited November 2009

    I have a feeling this will be the truth.  When has ANYONE said that, "Oh, I am in trouble...I need the government to help me!"  The government is 99.9% of all the problems that we have to deal with!

    Just look at what the government has done with SS, they dip into at a moments notice and then yell that it is going broke in the next!  Just another tax like SS where many of us will never see anything from and it will kill many in the process.

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  • Brenda_R
    Brenda_R Member Posts: 509
    edited November 2009

    "When has ANYONE said that, "Oh, I am in trouble...I need the government to help me!"

     I have!  I did it when I was dx'ed with BC and signed up for my SSD! I did it again when I needed my Medicare!  AND I'm darned glad I had those options to fall back on.  Thanks to those in Government who were thinking about the needs of the disabled! 

    My SSD and my Medicare are keeping me alive! Where would I be now if I didn't have those?

    Government intervention isn't all bad. 

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  • dee1961
    dee1961 Member Posts: 1,672
    edited November 2009

    Well, I have a stage IV friend that has been fighting for her SSDI for almost two years and is still waiting, I guess they must have given hers to an illegal.

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  • LeggyJ
    LeggyJ Member Posts: 726
    edited November 2009

    Do you really think your Medicare and SSDI will be the same, after the Health Care "Reform" Bill is passed?  There are deep cuts to Medicare, Oncology, and Cardiology in this bill.  You will be waiting in long lines, for sub standard care, just like the other 80% of us who are happy with our present health care.  I have worked all my life, and I'm happy with my health care provider, and I should suffer, for this god awful bill.  We will all be sorry, if this goes through, my employer will probably tell us they can't afford our plan anymore, and dump us into Socialized Health Care GHETTO! There are ways to fix our Health Care, like Torte Reform, but it's not in this bill, and Howard Dean, on YOUTUBE , said why is torte reform not included in the bill, because we don't want to piss off a bunch of lawyers.  fFor once I Howard Dean, spoke the truth.

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  • Colette37
    Colette37 Member Posts: 387
    edited November 2009

    dee1961...Too true with the illegal alien comment...which this bill does not stop having health care given to..Things that make you go, "Hmmmm!"

    LeggyJ.... I agree with you that we all will be in trouble..I don't think many people realize that there will be deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.  It is evident in Brenda_R's post that people do not know this very important point that this government is neglecting to tell their constituents.  Good point about Howard Dean, who is a Dr. and knows what is going on.

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  • LeggyJ
    LeggyJ Member Posts: 726
    edited November 2009
    This is whats to come, just look at www.telegraph.co. uk:news
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  • gpawelski
    gpawelski Member Posts: 564
    edited November 2009
    The mission of the USPSTF is to provide evidence-based recommendations and treatment guidelines for clinicians, unencumbered by cancer industry influence. They are not charged with rationing care.

    Appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services, they are an independent group of 16 experts who specialize in prevention and primary care. The task force members were quite thorough in their research.

    Their recommendations are supported by strong data and good science. The study authors do not have any conflicts of interest, they are not connected to the government and did not have rationing of health care resources as their underlying mission.

    Before nativists refer to the independent panel's recommendation as a sign of what's to come, the USPSTF is not the US government or a panel of government officials.

    The task force is made up of independent primary care doctors and others whose stated interests include decision modeling and evaluation, effectiveness in clinical preventive medicine, clinical epidemiology, and the prevention of high-risk behaviors.

    In the face of anger, confusion, fear, outright revolt, disturbing and shocking reactions, there has been no effort to educate people on the evidence behind the USPSTF recommendations.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2009

    I could swear I read that "their" findings were based on OLD mammo machine stats and NOT the more accurate digital ones. Based on this, the words "strong data and good science" do not apply.

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