''Health care professionals who agree with the Task Force recommendations to reduce the use of mammograms recognize this for exactly what it is—politicization of health care. Under Obamacare, the most effective lobbying efforts will have more impact on the care you can get than the opinion of your physician.''
The controversy surrounding the recent mammography guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a recommendation for swift and decisive defeat of efforts to expand federal oversight of health care. It almost seems as if this was designed as a laboratory experiment to learn exactly what will happen under
Obamacare. The results validate some of the most compelling arguments that opponents have made over the past few months....So we have a federal panel of “experts” setting policies for medical treatment. That will hopefully prevent people from consuming unnecessary care that drives up the total cost of health care. (Never mind that defensive medicine caused by liability concerns are strictly off the table.) But we have just seen the knee jerk reaction of Congress and the White House to
what is only a non-binding recommendation, where they instantly caved to public opinion and special interests (in the form of radiologists and the American Cancer Society) and disavowed the recommendations and assured American women that they could go right ahead and keep getting all the mammograms they want. http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/29/obamacare-wont-work-as-promised-heres-the-proof/