Aged Care Standards Agency

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNew ...

Is that what each of us would have to wait in Obamacare?

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cancer experts fear new guidelines for U.S. breast imaging which recommend routine mammography screening against women in their 40s may have their roots in the current drive to Washington reform of health care.

Critics of the guidelines issued Monday by the military services of experts, an independent panel sponsored by the U.S. Agency for quality care, such as new guidelines are a step back and lead to more deaths cancer.

Some of their concerns.

* Dr. Carol Lee, President of the American College of Radiology Imaging in the Commission, said she fears insurers - both private and public - will use it to counter back spending on health.

"These new recommendations appear to reflect a conscious decision to ration care," said Lee in a statement.

She said since the beginning of regular mammography screening in 1990, the mortality rate from breast cancer, which had been changed for the past 50 years, declined by 30 percent.

* Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said the influential group does not change the recommendations for routine mammography for women over 40 years.

But he is concerned that women will become so confused by the conflicting recommendations they will stop having a mammogram in total. "Frankly, from our point of view it would be the worst possible outcome," Lichtenfeld said in a telephone interview.

* Lichtenfeld and other physicians worry that insurance companies and insurers, the government will seize on the recommendations as a means of controlling health care costs increase.

"What will happen is that insurers will say, 'The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not support testing. We will not pay for it," said Dr. Daniel Kopans, professor of radiology Harvard Medical School and a senior radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

"There was no new data to evaluate. One wonders why these new guidelines are promulgated at a time when health is being discussed and I fear that their decision is bound to save money rather than saving lives, "said Kopans.

* "The USPSTF recommendations are a step back and represent a material injury to the health of women," Dr. W. Phil Evans, president of the Society of Breast Imaging, said in a statement.

"At least 40 percent of lives saved by screening mammography are women aged 40-49 years. These recommendations are inconsistent with current science and, apparently, have been developed to try to reduce costs. Unfortunately, many Women can pay for this ill-founded approach to their lives. "

As soon as I heard this recommendation, I immediately thought Obamacare. People do not understand that the health care reform is that the beginiing. Our health care has been eroded FRO Obamacare decades and is another step in the decline of our medical care. The reason is a concern is that it gives insurance companies the right to decline to less than 50 mammograms.

Wow this is a little old to start looking I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 26 I might have to wait 14 years to see under those rules.

This has nothing to do with Obama.

That said, there is no reason Dr. can not prescribe a mammogram.

As a woman, I think it is a terrible recommendation.

I saw that report and thought exactly what you are.