Remember the solemn promise by the President and the Democrats that healthcare reform would NOT result in rationing? Well, it appears the Whitehouse has taken the first step to do precisely that! A new government study concluded that women should NOT get mammograms as is currently recommended.
The American Cancer Society currently recommends, "Women age 40 and older should have a screening mammogram every year, and should continue to do so for as long as they are in good health." A study just released by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, however, stated that regular mammography screening need not be started before age 50, and, then, only once every two years, and it, further, stated that women should NOT perform self examinations. It reached these conclusions despite the fact that 17% of breast cancer deaths in 2006 were among women in their 40s, and many breast cancers have been discovered by women performing self examinations. So, why has the Federal Government published this study now?
Recommendations from the task force are used as the basis for insurance companies determining what procedures they will pay for. Adherence is not mandatory, but insurance companies can use the recommendation to reduce the number of mammograms they will pay for. If insurance companies decline payment for mammograms the result would be thousands less of these procedures performed each year. And if women cease to perform self examinations, there will be thousands less follow-up procedures.
With the huge pending cost of healthcare reform, the addition of thousands of new patients and the prospect of doctors leaving their practices, rationing is unavoidable. Despite promises from the President and the Democrats, it, not only, WILL happen, but, with the release of this study, they have begun laying the groundwork for it. And they didn't even wait until the reform package was passed!
If you don't want your healthcare rationed, you need to let your congressmen and senators know, NOW!* The House bill has already passed. If the bill in the Senate passes, there will be a vote on a final package, and healthcare reform will be law, along with the inevitable rationing the Federal Government promised would never happen.
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United Airlines did it again! This time their abysmal customer service department stonewalled a musician whose $3500 Taylor guitar was damaged by baggage handlers. This is just another of the countless incidents involving terrible customer service by the airline (see my previous articles, Flying the "Unfriendly Skies": A Despicable Story and Flying the "Unfriendly Skies": The Pilots Step Up). But this time, they messed with the wrong person. After being stonewalled by United customer service for OVER NINE MONTHS, singer and songwriter, Dave Carroll, wrote a song, created a video and posted it on You Tube. It was an instant success. As I write this, nearly 6.5 MILLION PEOPLE have viewed the video, leaving thousands of comments and personal horror stories on the site. After the huge success of Dave's video, United, allegedly, contacted him to offer a settlement if he would agree to remove his video. Dave refused. He has subsequently appeared on several major TV networks to tell the story in his own words. Check out his video, below.
This is better than Sirius and XM Radio! And it's free! I just discovered a remarkable Internet site. It is called Pandora Internet Radio. With it, you can create your own CD quality stereo MUSIC RADIO STATIONS personally tailored to your taste and any themes you choose. Getting started is very simple. Just select the artists and/or songs you want. The website will do the rest, creating a THEME RADIO STATION based on your selections. This is not like any other music site on the web. It is the product of the Music Genome Project in which 50 musical analysts with 4 year degrees in music theory, composition and performance have been analyzing all types of music since 2000 to develop a huge music database. It is phenomenally all inclusive. I assure you, you have not experienced a music website like this one. It's like it can read your mind and learn your innermost musical taste when you give it just one artist or song. And you can give it multiple criteria if you want. Below, is an excerpt from the Music Genome Project website.
Remember the solemn promise by the President and the Democrats that healthcare reform would NOT result in rationing? Well, it appears the Whitehouse has taken the first step to do precisely that! A new government study concluded that women should NOT get mammograms as is currently recommended.
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