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Will the government force women?
to wait for pap smears and mammograms or will they pay for them in a public option?
I'm wondering how many people are recognizing that this is the future of your health care when the public option becomes the only option. They are not following the advice of the government panel that is almost the sole source for setting medicare guidelines because it's not politically correct. Which is worse, a government panel overriding the American Cancer Society recommendations saying you don't need the exams or politicians with no medical background ignoring the advice and spending money on supposedly unnecessary tests because it's PC?
Are you aware that we have the best cancer survival outcomes in the world because we do early screening and countries with socialized medicine usually don't?
"The new guidelines were issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, whose stance influences coverage of screening tests by Medicare and many insurance companies."
Did you even read the question Sarah?
Yes volley, but what happens if you no longer have a choice? So it's OK to force women to pay for thier own screening but not OK for everyone to pay for thier own insurance?!?!
8 Answers
- RusheventsLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
You caught that too? I thought I was the only one to see that as a preemptive price-cutting strike for the "public-option".
All the "real" scientists say you don't need one until you reach 50 so no scan for you!
- grobLv 71 decade ago
Yeah, that'd be a disingenuous lie. Your unsourced guidelines for Pap Smears come from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, not the U.S. Government.
The mammogram guidelines come from a government task force and not that it matters-because their research is sound- that likely started their research in the Bush administration.
We have the best Cancer survival outcomes because we throw a lot of money at Cancer research and treatment. Of course, if you lack access to the research and treatment you lack the outcomes and I know plenty of dead women who DID NOT have access to the treatment and research or even the FORMER guidelines for mammograms because they didn't have health insurance.
My wife had breast cancer at 39 and, ironically, it was not found through a mammogram. But she did speak to tons of friends and family members her age and while all of them had been through the mammogram-biopsy process NONE of them, not one, had cancer. While their research is against current conventional wisdom their conclusions are SOUND.
- Disco StuLv 51 decade ago
I'm sure many women will be forced to get "back alley" pap smears rather than wait according to the government timelines.
Otherwise, they may offend those less fortunate who cannot afford "vanity" pap smears. Those awful, filthy, elitist rich women shouldn't be allowed to protect their health when some women are bound up in the government system! This is so unjust!
Source(s): Sarcasm. - Mike GLv 41 decade ago
Luckily with over 15 years of work in the field of Radiology I know the facts.
Healthy women do NOT need a pap and mammo every year.
A public option plan will cover a pap and a mammo.
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- 1 decade ago
Really?
There is NOTHING that says you can't get screening and pay for it. And if you are a "high risk" individual and a doctor wants it done, it gets done.
And to be very honest, if I was concerned enough, I would pay for it. So what is your issue with this again?? Just because someone says it doesn't need to be done until a certain age doesn't mean you can't have it done. Hell, my insurance company wouldn't pay for mine until I reached 40, so for the past few years, I have been paying for my own.
No, really??
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No they shouldn't force them to wait until 50.
Many women have been saved by mammograms in their 40's and 30's.
- paul sLv 51 decade ago
Yes, it is unfolding exactly as we predicted. They ignored the facts before. They will continue to ignore facts. Still, he isn't bush. That is all they needed then and that fact has not changed.
- 1 decade ago
You are the type of person that is "Do as I say not as I do". You really need to follow what you call yourself on yahoo answers and stop ranting.
