Posted on 11/18/2009 8:04:40 PM PST by Nachum
A top federal health official said Wednesday that the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a written statement, said the new guidelines had "caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women and their families across this country," and she stressed that they were issued by "an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who . . . do not set federal policy and . . . don't determine what services are covered by the federal government."
Sebelius's statement challenged the recommendations of that influential panel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, made up of independent experts assembled by her department to address one of the most explosive issues in women's health.
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It said the panel was appointed by her department, meaning HHS, but it must have been the Bush HHS, in other words her *department* before it was *her* department, capishe? I know, it IS confusing writing!
What about the new bi-annual prostate exams for men....?
Their back peddling on this is a farce.
Rationing is a given in ObamaCare, whether this lying Administration wants to admit or acknowedge such or not.
And now there’s new guidelines for PAP Smears. I don’t see how you vote for Obama if you’re a woman.
I’m not sure how much I am able to believe her disclaimer, but it wasn’t my intent to claim she had made any appointments. My emphasis was that this decision emanated from a group assembled by her department. That’s all.
Did she give a directive to the effect, let’s see what we can do to reduce the costs of testing? I don’t know. I do believe these folks are trying to implement cost cutting to make it look like this sort of thing is what the public could expect from government run health care.
“See, look, you can expect to see your health care insurance costs go down now...” I don’t believe that to be the case at all.
Thanks for the response. Take care.
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