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in 2009 there is no bigger issue
Government makes Mammograms Their Business
This Federal Panel that recommended a reduction in screening for breast cancer in woman has caused quite a stir. The simple reason is that they are viewing statistics and not people as the concern. More important for the future, 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.
WSJ reports: "In a rational system, the responsibility for health care ought to reside with patients and their doctors. James Thrall, a Harvard medical professor and chairman of the American College of Radiology, tells us that the breast cancer decision shows the dangers of medicine being reduced to "accounting exercises subject to interpretations and underlying assumptions," and based on costs and large group averages, not individuals."
Even worse is the reality that politicians would also become involved. In something as personal and unique as the relationship and decisions between a patient and their doctor, on price, quality, concerns - this is going in exactly the wrong direction.
It is in the direction of putting the Government in charge of rationing care. If this seems like a large leap then I would recommend you do a search on this website on rationing. There are a number of good articles that show how this progression is likely to occur.
You want to be concerned? Well the advisories from this Panel are commonly put into policy in Medicare, and often put into effect in private insurance.
More from another article in WSJ: "What's really going on here is that the left knows its designs will require political rationing of care, but it doesn't want the public to figure this out until ObamaCare passes. Then it will begin the campaign to instruct the rest of us that we must follow the guidance of Princeton professors about what medical care we can receive. Americans will simply have to accept that the price of government-run health care in the name of redistributive justice is that patients and their doctors must bow to the superior wisdom of HHS task forces."