[originalbuckeye]

Only 5-10% of new colorectal cancers have a genetic link. Government health care, waiting until you are in pretty bad shape before testing you, if you are in the 90% without a genetic link. And you will die faster so they don't have to spend as much money on you. Government health care must be stopped in this country!

[goldstategop]

I got a colonoscopy done last summer.

Guess what? My insides were found to be completely free of cancer.

Procedure cost $33,000, including anesthesia.

Next checkup is in ten years’ time.

[skeeter]

This upcoming election already will determine our future financial quality of life - far, far more than any other. It will for me.

Its also shaping up to literally be a matter of life and death.

Its why I'm in no mood for the BS campaign tactics being employed by certain candidates. I'm not talking about robocalls.

This is not a game. Start looking at the issues folks, compare and contrast candidate policies.

Before its too late.

[DoughtyOne]

[Mase]

Behold the nightmare that is single payer healthcare.

[Seaplaner]

Colonoscopy not needed for routine colorectal cancer screening, task force says

"Task force"? Death Panel might be closer to it.

Only 5-10% of new colorectal cancers have a genetic link. Government health care, waiting until you are in pretty bad shape before testing you, if you are in the 90% without a genetic link. And you will die faster so they don't have to spend as much money on you. Government health care must be stopped in this country!

Socialized medicine.

Long waits for limited and substandard health service.

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[DoughtyOne]

Colonoscopies are needed.

I wasn’t polyps free. I’ve had them removed twice.

Reagan had that problem.

I may not like the procedure, but then I’m thinking I’d not like the outcome of not having it more.

[Mears]

I have refused having a colonoscopy for years.

My doctor finally gave up.

Here I am-—83 years old.

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[discostu]

The real question is does the sigmoidoscopy involve the cleanse. Anything to avoid the day of deliberately induced explosive diarrhea.

[TruthWillWin]

Illiterates the problems with government health care. Medical decisions made because of financial reasons.

[shibumi]

I had my first colonoscopy in 1990 at age 42.

Just a few centimeters from the maximum range of the scope, the Doc removed a golf ball size Tubovillous Adenoma that was (to use his colorful phrase) “ripe and getting ready to blossom into cancer.”

I have no genetic predisposition nor any family history that would have indicated caution. In fact the reason I got the full scope was because the Doc (a personal friend) had me as the inaugural patient in his new endoscopy surigicenter. He wanted to show off his new toys.

Long story short - I had six month follow ups for two years and have been on five year re-checks ever since. Praise God, no recurrence.

But had I been subject to current guidelines, I would have had at a minimum an arduous battle with cancer and in all likelihood I would have died.

But that’s the whole point of Government run healthcare, isn’t it?

[odawg]

I thought the object of that procedure was to remove polyps along with visual inspection. Polyps can become cancerous. But I am not a doctor.

[umgud]

In a perfect world, there should 535 colonoscopies in congress to check for brain activity.

[Gay State Conservative]

All my doctors are on the staff of one of the world's most famous,and finest,hospitals...a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.And,having had an appointment in that hospital's GI Dept just last week,I can assure everyone that the word of this "breakthrough" hasn't reached Harvard yet.

Sounds like the Canadian health system is trying to save a Loonie or two while hoping the huddle masses don't notice.

[catfish1957]

Good....Maybe my triennial impaling will cease.

[SpaceBar]

This is the free prize inside every box of rationed (socialized) medical care.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Colon prep....ugh!!!

[golux]

STATS CANADA:

CANADIANS AVERAGE 18 MONTHS WAIT FOR CRITICAL PROCEDURES.

Skip a colonoscopy? Saves money for Canada but sure won’t save lives.

“RICH” CANADIANS COME TO THE USA FOR CRITICAL CARE,

...Then continue to bad-mouth us when they get home.

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah...the means smearing my my crap on a card.

Getting old is not fun.

[Vermont Lt]

It’s all based on statistics. If the smear test is cheaper and just effective, I don’t have an issue with it.

But since I had polyps, I get the every five year plan.

[Myrddin]

I'm a polyp farm. So was my dad. Last time in, they clipped out 15. Ten days later, one of the clipped areas broke open and I was bleeding significantly. I spent all night in a cold room sucking down 4 liters of "Golytely" and hoping to wash it clear for an emergency colonoscopy to deal with the bleeder. My BP was down to 92/49 after 8 hours in the ER. The basic colonoscopy was only $4,000. The emergency colonoscopy to stop the bleeder added another $8,500. The doc spotted another patch of polyps which fixing the bleeder. Thankfully, he didn't do more clipping. I really should return for more harvesting in case some of them go beyond precancerous. Just very averse to more abuse and expose to infection from improperly sterilized equipment.