[shortstop]

Not a day goes by that I don't get further infuriated by the stupid decisions made by someone in the federal government or our current corrupt administration.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The purpose of Obamacare is to kill off old white people ASAP so we can change the voting demographics of the country ASAP.

Period.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve never had a cancer screening. I’m 58. My kids are grown and everything is hunky dory. If I get cancer, they probably won’t catch it until stage four and I will die. But I will die when the Lord is good and ready for me to die.

Philippians 1:21, “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

[greatvikingone]

Some screenings really are more dangerous than what they screen for.

[Nifster]

hopeless blog pimp...

[stuartcr]

I don’t agree with the govt on this, as I believe if only one person is helped, it’s worth it.

Unfortunately, screening failed to find my wife’s breast cancer, my father’s prostate cancer, and my cousins pancreatic cancer.

[onemiddleamerican]

Screening caught my mother’s breast cancer; she lived 13 more years after diagnosis and treatment. My kids got to grow up knowing their grandma, thanks to the “unnecessary” screening.

Screw this government cost-cutting BS. November cannot come soon enough for me.

[montanajoe]

I have a slightly elevated PSA and have had it for years. The MD suggested a biopsy and after doing a bit of checking I declined he had no problem with that. If I live long enough I'll get prostrate cancer but its likely something else will kill me.

If folks want PSA screening then go for it but for me I don't worry about it..

[precisionshootist]

"Screening, the government people say, isn’t necessary. "

Of course not, because screening costs money and the less cancer we find the less cancer we have to treat. Plus what you don't know will still kill you and we the all caring government won't have to use our vote buying money to care for you.

This is just a run up to all out death panels. Later when it's proven this is a false premise they will switch to it being immoral to treat cancer patients as it will deny other treatable people needed care.

Evil bastards

[trailhkr1]

Screenings have been overdone. Way too many test. Some of it it caused by doctors worried about trial lawyers and some the doc’s just want to pad their accounts.

[The Great RJ]

Note that the government panels issuing these “recommendations” are not made up of physician experts who treat cancer, but statistician types who just look at aggregate data. The real cancer experts do not agree with these changes in screening criteria. The rationale for these government panel recommendations also have little to do with surviving cancer, but everything to do with keeping down costs, presumably to a government run health care system. Would you trust your life to a government bureaucrat who tells you that it makes no difference how often you get screened for common cancers or trust a physician who actually treats cancer? You are seeing the real death panels.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Welcome to the Obama Holocaust signed onto by the RATs in Congress. Never Again is here in my opinion.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I worked in a Hospital Urology Department. PSA screenings are vital and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. The Department Chief is adamant about this as were all the other Drs I worked with.

[Chainmail]

PSAs are important mostly for the changes between them: if you get a routine PSA and six months later the PSA increases, it's time to get some other tests. I am a Vietnam Veteran and as is usual for us, we were exposed to dioxin via Angent Orange and we have a much greater chance of getting aggressive prostate cancer. In 2005 and 2006, my PSAs taken during routine physicals changed upward from 3 to 5.5. I underwent a biopsy (uncomfortable but necessary) and cancer was discovered in 6 out of eight areas of my prostate with Gleason score of 8. I immediately found the best prostate cancer surgeon I could find at Johns Hopkins and had the prostate removed. I have recovered well (i.e., no loss of necessary functions) and I have been cancer-free these last 6 years when I probably would have been dead by now.

Do not listen to this government, get screened often, particularly if you served in Vietnam. If you do find cancer, see somebody who has had a lot of experience and is skilled enough to spare your nerves down there, if you follow my drift.

Good luck all of you!

[KosmicKitty]

Government wrong?? Impossible, I say!!

Look how well that food pyramid worked out!





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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think an across-the-board examination needs to be made of Obama-era medical decisions that on their surface seemed to be designed to increase mortality.

This is not as outrageous as it sounds, because these people have outrageous, and oftentimes murderous ideas, which they have made little effort to conceal.

Many in the “pseudo-scientific radical left” are all in favor of just about anything that kills people, individually or collectively. They see people as “enemies of the environment”, and a pestilence on the land that needs to be dramatically reduced, “for the environment”.

And as pedophiles are attracted to working with children, these mentally ill individuals are attracted to systems that are supposed to benefit the health of people.

The bottom line is that right now, people who want to kill thousands or even millions of other people, are trying to figure out ways of doing it, and getting away with it.

If they can deny them the means of discovering they have a dangerous disease, it is disconnected enough for them to do so.

[Madam Theophilus]

You might want to read further on this issue. From what I’ve seen this may be one time the government is actually correct. European governments have backed off on cancer screening for awhile due to its ineffectiveness and potential harm. One place to get more information is the Center for Medical Consumers. It’s a private organization which debunks false health information to protect the consumer:

http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/03/08/what-mds-dont-know-about-cancer-screening-tests/