Posted on 11/23/2009 6:21:59 PM PST by GOP_Lady
The flap over breast cancer screening has provided a fascinating insight into the political future of ObamaCare. Specifically, the political left supports such medical rationing even as it disavows that any such thing is happening.
No sooner had the Health and Human Services Department's U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommended against mammography for women under 50 than Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rushed to say don't worry. The decision had "caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women," she said, promising that no policies would change. New Jersey's Frank Pallone vowed to hold hearings, and Senator Dick Durbin leveled the gravest charge Democrats can make: The task force was "appointed by President Bush."
The political duck-and-cover was also on display in that vanguard of ObamaCare known as the New York Times, which ran at least four much-ado-about-nothing items even as it endorsed the reduced screening. On the same day as an editorial and op-ed, a front-page "news analysis" lectured that what the public really needs is "a transformational shift in thinking" about the "evidence-based" medical future that the mammogram decision portends. Yes, and no doubt the Times will tell us what "evidence" to follow.
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Sebelius is lying, the rationed guidelines for women are IN the Senate bill.
Death Panels? What death panels?
Guess I’m gonna have to step up and start offering exams myself. ;~)
Seriously, David Horowitz is suggesting women start staging “die ins”. He said the tactic is effective because the left has no means of fighting against it and can’t come out looking good.
We can play the left’s game.
Heh....I like that idea....DIE INS
The panel that made this guideline is a death panel!
Hispanic women and to a lesser degree Black women have
almost half the risk of incidence of breast carcinoma
that white women do from ages 40 to 50.
Most interestingly, white women had been doing well
by curative treatment. They were being cured. That is not to be any longer.
Horowitz knows how to play the game because he was one of them.
Yeah, but those are just “astroturf” die-ins...
Hey there, dear maggief!
BTW, thanks for the post of you-know-what last week. :-)
why and when was the task group appointed by Pres. Bush, and who asked them to report on this now?
What is wrong with her eye?
so then, perhaps the new age “death panel” will evolve into a modernist ethics/civil rights senate where healthcare will be rationed out to the highest political capital bidder
Shades of things to come but much worse than this
“basal cell carcinoma removed from her forehead”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/10/whats_up_with_kathleen_sebeliu.html
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