[workerbee]

She was very lucky, as for women approaching 70, routine mammograms aren’t always given a major emphasis as far as medical care goes.

I like how he throws this in, almost as an unimportant detail, then goes on to rave about socialized medicine's preventive care. One asks what else isn't a "major emphasis", and for whom, and with what results.

[Mears]

I’m an 85 year old woman and stopped having routine mammograms 10 years ago.

I felt that it was a waste of time for me.

A lot of people my age have voluntarily stopped some routine tests.

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[blue state conservative]

You can add routine colonoscopies to that list. A Canadian friend said you can’t get one in Canada unless you have a family history of colon cancer.