[mlizzy]

And it said doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis.

Huh?

[HighWheeler]

Bill Clinton has selflessly volunteered to help out the 40 y.o. women who will be displaced as a result of Zer0bamaCare

[The4thHorseman]

“And it said doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis.

Huh?”

I can’t believe the article didn’t bother to explain this. My guess is that the self-exams can give women a false sense of security (”I didn’t feel anything, so why bother having them checked by a doctor”), when quite often women don’t really know what they’re doing when they do a self-exam. Might also be because it causes unnecessary worry (and unnecessary doctor’s visits), when a woman thinks she’s feels something but it’s nothing. Just a guess—but still lousy reporting to not explain (would have taken all of a sentence).

[Go Gordon]

And it said doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis. Huh?

Doctors should teach men to examine women's breast on a regular basis.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

This is such B.S. Trust virtually NO ONE who has M.D. after their name but who spends >90% of their time as a policy wonk. Further, this organization is based on outcomes assessments and “quality assurance” measures. This is at best a very faulty system of assessments that measures cost/benefit rations in terms of dollars spent per patient year of life saved etc. Patients aren't statistics. They are individuals, and each needs to be assessed and treated independently.

Part of working hard in life, getting an education, trying to live healthy, saving money, looking for a job with good benefits etc. is so that you can assure your family and yourself that you'll have a choice when it comes to treatment options.

Buttheads like Obama don't want anyone to have anything more than anyone else (unless you are a politician/lawyer/or work in Hollywood). So they think the best way to make sure that happens is to come up with standards that are applied universally. Inevitably those standards have to restrict care to some extent in order to keep the governments part of this cost from looking unsustainable right out of the box. The result is that they lower the standard of care for everyone, and the costs will be higher anyway. The reality is that everyone can get a great standard of care. There are plenty of ways to do this, but none of them are the ways that are being proposed now.