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Senate Health Care Bill: Section 2708-NO MAMMOGRAMS FOR YOU!
Senate Healthcare Bill/Dept. HHS/The Lid ^ | 11/23/09 | The Lid

Posted on 11/23/2009 7:13:05 AM PST by Shellybenoit

Under the Senate bill approved to be moved to the Senate floor this past Saturday night it will be United States Preventive Services Task Force, deciding what tests and procedures getting covered by the government and private health care plans. The US Preventative Services Task Force is not a new agency. The Task Force is part of the Healthcare Research and Quality Agency (AHRQ). The task force is the 'bean counting part of the Dept. Health and Human Services. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The Senate bill makes medical care a matter of cost-effectiveness, not saving lives:

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: healthcare; healthrationing; obama; senatebill

1 posted on 11/23/2009 7:13:10 AM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

“The Senate bill makes medical care a matter of cost-effectiveness, not saving lives:”

This is good news; we may now look forward to the same savings, service and efficiency in health care we get with the Post Office...


2 posted on 11/23/2009 7:16:50 AM PST by jessduntno ("Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Shellybenoit

If the govt decides what services “private health plans” can offer- then they AREN”T PRIVATE HEALTH PLANS

d.oh!


3 posted on 11/23/2009 7:18:36 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: Shellybenoit

death squad...lol cant have this...doesnt the constitution prohibit congress from doing this?


4 posted on 11/23/2009 7:19:17 AM PST by dalebert
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To: jessduntno

coupled with the compassion of the IRS

quality controlled with the unbiased oversight of ACORN and the SEIU


5 posted on 11/23/2009 7:20:04 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: dalebert

“Are you kidding?”

Nancy Pelosi


6 posted on 11/23/2009 7:20:48 AM PST by silverleaf (Ours is the only country on earth with a ventriloquist dummy for President)
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To: Shellybenoit

Just heard on KSFO Brian Sussman’s show featuring guest Jack Cahill—AP has assigned two (2) fact checkers for a total of 4,000 plus pages and eleven (11) fact checkers for Sarah Palin’s book of 44 plus pages. (Don’t have time to find a link.)


7 posted on 11/23/2009 7:24:26 AM PST by notaliberal (Palin supporter)
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To: notaliberal

Meant to say: Only two (2) fact checkers for the healthcare bill -—Sorry


8 posted on 11/23/2009 7:26:43 AM PST by notaliberal (Palin supporter)
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To: Shellybenoit
I'll leave the matter of whether or not decreased testing makes sense up to qualified, un-biased doctors.

Still, this just strikes me as a way to water down what our expectations of reasonable healthcare should be. What next? Are they going to tell us that "well-being" visits for preventative care only have to occur every 5-10 years, depending on our age? Are they going to say, "aspirin, fluids and rest" are enough to combat any common malady?

9 posted on 11/23/2009 7:48:05 AM PST by Lou L
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To: jessduntno

but, but...

I thought all issues of healthcare were between a woman and her doctor?


10 posted on 11/23/2009 7:59:36 AM PST by KC Burke (...but He has made the trains run on time.)
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