Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 50...

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  1. Buzz Killington

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    contradicting the American Cancer Society....

    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mammograms,0,948673.story

    and so it continues....the road to serfdom....
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Prelude to the death squads that are in the health care bill.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    you're insane.


    wait, there's SQUADS now? Shit, they went from panels to squads and next they'll be battalions, marching up and down the streets of middle America, killing grandmothers and charging the family for the bullet
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    You know what I posted was mostly tongue in cheek?

    But I do think it should give us pause to consider that the govt. WILL have the incentive to encourage people to take more risk so some % won't be a huge expense to the system.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    You crack me up. :biglaugh:
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    The government is insane.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    I happen to favor laws like the one in Oregon for assisted suicide. I don't like the idea of doctors killing people, since it's the antithesis of what they're supposed to do (first do no harm). But there could be specialists who don't practice medicine to handle those situations.

    If the whole country ends up permitting assisted suicide, it does raise serious ethical issues for govt. run health care. The govt. does have the right to take lives - no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. It's questionable that if the govt. performs assisted suicide that it's not akin to an execution and certainly without due process (trial by jury of one's peers).
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    I wonder how Debbie Wasserman-Schultz feels about this recommendation? Something tells me she'll get all the mammograms she wants. After all, all animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Read up on 1930's Germany sometime.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Are you seriously equating the health care bill with a run up to Nazi Germany??!?!??!

    Read up on the history of the war sometime. Then read up on what those people stood for and what they did. Perhaps you'll be enlightened as to the huge differences.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    I told my wife about this tonight. I also printed out the quote from the study stating that "some" people will think this a way for the Obama administration to cut costs on their healthcare turd.

    She's not happy about it.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    How do you feel about a fed funded study recommending less screening for breast cancer? That's the real story here.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    how is this different from privatized health care?
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Because you can shop for a different plan in the private industry within your state (federal regulations included). I encourage you to read the actual bill that Pelosi passed, and then tell me what it says about switching private plans once the bill becomes law. :devilwink:
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Yep. And you've bought into it. You're right there with them.
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    Why, was Obama the president?
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    :NOTMARIS:
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    you know what's incredibly hilarious about this?

    hayek, in the actual book 'the road to serfdom,' argued IN FAVOR of government-run "socialized" health insurance.

    read 'em and weep, glibertarians:

     
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  19. Buzz Killington

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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    book?
     
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    Re: Government starting to tell women they don't need breast exams if they're under 5

    The private companies have incentive to not pay out the costs of cancer treatment, and they are contractually obligated to do so. If they refuse, they get sued.

    There is no such contractual obligation with government.

    So if a company thinks its cheaper to catch cancer early, they'll pay that cost to try to avoid the bigger cost.
     
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