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Obama’s new cancer Rx is a war on men
New York Post ^
| November 25, 2015
| Betsy McCaughey
Posted on 11/25/2015 8:09:53 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
If youâre at risk of prostate cancer â in other words, if youâre male â the best place to be is the United States, where survival rates are highest in the world. But not for long, if the Obama administration gets its way in curtailing a test that flags prostate cancer before it spreads.
The administration wants to penalize doctors who routinely order the PSA blood test. Under a proposed policy, those doctors will get demerits for being considered over-spenders, while doctors who skip the test will be rewarded with a high âqualityâ rating from the government â and be paid more.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cancer; health; obama; obamacare
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To: ConservativeStatement
The government needs to get the hell out of health care.
To: ConservativeStatement
I believe they did this with Breast Cancer too. Lots of women getting tested, because early detection can save lives. Then, all of a sudden, early detection wasn't really saving all that many lives, and -- you know -- it was kind of expensive, and so the government guidelines suddenly changed. Who needs testing??
Government involvement in health care just means more bean counting and rigid regulations. People die because of that stuff.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:14:26 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Simple workaround. Your doctor needs to order a “Diagnostic” PSA test as opposed to a “Screening” PSA test. They have different codes, but they are identical. I had some bitch Phlebotomist advise me upon the occasion of an annual PSA screening that “this was all I would get for the year.” I told her that I would “get” as many as my doctor and I jointly decided was appropriate. Dying of Prostate Cancer is needless today.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:17:22 PM PST
by
vette6387
To: ConservativeStatement
When I had my physical this summer, the lab somehow forgot to run the PSA even though my doctor had ordered it. So, I had to go back to the lab (at extra expense) to have it done (I passed, BTW). My doctor is very dedicated to her patients (my doctor is a woman) and is not too keen on the changes ObamaCare DeathCare hath wrought. She will probably start piling up demerits.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:17:49 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:22:51 PM PST
by
uncitizen
(Pray for Donald Trump)
To: ConservativeStatement
This has been looming for some time. I had my first PSA before the turn of the century. In 2006, at age 59, I had a PSA high enough (4.5, IIRC) to cause my PCP to refer me to a urologist, who performed a prostate biopsy. Inconclusive - some precancerous cells.
A year later, my follow-up biopsy disclosed a fast advancing cancer - 9 Gleason, for which I was treated - classic radiation for 42 days and hormones for two years.
I'm now 8 years out, and but for that 2006 PSA, I'd be a dead man.
Thanks, Obama, and bean-counters everywhere!
"I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist." |
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:25:46 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: ConservativeStatement
Is the PSA reliable? I understand it is not reliable. Maybe I’m wrong. What about the link between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease? Is there really a link?
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:27:19 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: ConservativeStatement; null and void; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; ..
Oh, great, Obama wants to make sure that I kick early, given my family history of prostate cancer.
PING!
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:28:41 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: ConservativeStatement
There will be PSA tests for Congress, for SCOTUS,
for POTUS, and their families, and their staff,
and, of course, all Moslems.
Similarly for breast cancer, and every other disease.
Death panels for all, except the duplicitous GOP monsters.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:32:10 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: ConservativeStatement; Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; ...
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Obama's new cancer Rx is a war on men (mostly white men since they are more likely to be screened for cancer than other races.)
Article and # 3 , # 4 .
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:32:30 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: Theodore R.
Why isn’t this out of the bailiwick of “health plans” altogether? Let people choose whether to purchase the test, and don’t bother the doctors either way.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:32:33 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Americans must thank the Bishop Romney and the GOP
for iMPOSING, by Gruber, RomneyCARE and socialized
medicine run by ... the EXEMPT government.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:33:59 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: Tired of Taxes
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:36:29 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Diogenesis
It apparently has got even supposed conservatives singing the “I’m utterly dependent on government” blues. Maybe the prices are breathtaking, but has there been an actual BAN on buying medical services outside the system?
People hate to be robbed and then to pay again for what the robbery was supposed to get for them, but that beats letting the robbers boss your whole life around.
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posted on
11/25/2015 8:39:31 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: LucyT
What if we change the coding and call it abortion?
To: Theodore R.
Maybe someone else can respond.
To: HiTech RedNeck
It apparently has got even supposed conservatives singing the âIâm utterly dependent on governmentâ blues. Maybe the prices are breathtaking, but has there been an actual BAN on buying medical services outside the system?Obama illegal amnesty gives Medicare to illegals.
Yet there will be no PSA tests under Medicare for lawful FICA tax payers who were forced to pay into the system for 45 years.
That's "utterly" absurd.
To: FreeReign
This is where people have to separate the freedom and robbery questions. Will they just bow down to the robbers? I’d sooner be poorer and free than richer and all satisficed.
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:02:09 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ConservativeStatement
National Cancer Institute: "How do prostate cancer incidence and death rates differ for men from different racial or ethnic groups?""African American/Black men have the highest incidence rate for prostate cancer in the United States and are more than twice as likely as White men to die of the disease. The lowest death rates for prostate cancer are found in Asian/Pacific Islander men. Incidence and death rates for prostate cancer are shown in Table 4."
http://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/crchd/cancer-health-disparities-fact-sheet#q9
Black lives only matter to Obama when there are political points to be gained.
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posted on
11/25/2015 9:03:09 PM PST
by
Sooth2222
("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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