[fatnotlazy]

Before Obamacare, my sister-in-law had excellent health insurance through work that, among other things, covered her twice yearly mammograms, which her doctor recommended because of a significant family history of breast cancer. Her current crappy policy will only pay for one a year. Now with these new guidelines, she probably won't even get that.

But if she wanted a sex change operation, her policy covers it. I'm not kidding.

Obamacare has made a mess of health insurance and health care that will only get worse. And more people will die as a result.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yes, Obamacare made a mess of everything, and in your sister’s case mammograms make sense. However, for the majority of women, mammograms may do more harm than good. Even in your sister’s case, the risk from greater exposure of the breasts to radiation must be taken into account in making the decision of how often she should have mammograms. There are a lot of gray areas.

Medical care should be between patient and doctor. Government should be out of medical care, and insurance should be for catastrophic events. If that were the case, then medical care would be more affordable.

The other thing we need is tort reform. There is much being done that is a caused by CYA, because doctors always have to be concerned about ambulance chasers.