Mammogram Recommendations Show the Dangers of Government Run Healthcare

A sign of what's to come

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The American people should listen carefully to this government panel's recommendations. They shouldn't just consider the advice about breast cancer screening, but what this type of recommendation will mean if we expand government's role in providing and dictating what health insurance policies must contain. This is the central issue in this healthcare debate. It's not about coverage. It's not about costs. It's about control. Who should make these determinations, the individual or the state? I think I know which way the American people would vote.

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We need health care reform - doing nothing is not an option.

Congress should be looking out for the people and not health insurance companies.

The worst kind of rationing by Insurance companies is what we have now and its based on profiteering by corporate monopolies. These callous entities will hire any goon to lie about their intentions suggesting its anything other than to rip off consumers.

Don't try to snooker us with this plug for corporate profits while feigning any care about womens' health. Its just like these kook republicans who are scaremongering seniors while previously being opponents of Medicare. Smoke and mirrors - lies and deception.

Lets' not confuse reality with this panel appointed by Bush, loaded with Health Insurance Lobbyists, who used this episode to again try to kill health care reform.

Cindy of IN 5:22PM December 01, 2009

The GOP Congress has indeed become the best Congress money can buy!

Saturday night's Senate Vote Just to have a debate on Healthcare, was a small victory for the "agents of change" (democrats) and reflects very poorly on the state of the Party of No & Fear that they would not even allow a debate on this issue to move forward -- thereby belying the title of being the greatest deliberative body on earth!

It is noteworthy, that in the past, the Party of No & Fear, also fought against Social Security Reform and Medicare, and true to form or color, they are fighting against healthcare reform today! Yes, Social Security and Medicare are subject to abuse and fraud, but that is one of the reforms in the healthcare bill to address this problem! Millions depend on Social Security and Medicare and they are glad that it is there. They want it improved upon not done away with.

The naysayers have even tried to Sabotage the reform by introducing a phony abortion debate (we all know Nancy Pelosi will never allow abortions to be done away with) , and another womens' issue (how time appropriate) was introduced (I smell a rat) into the debate -- that of Mammograms and the fear that we are somehow on our way to healthcare rationing, when we all should know that we are already experiencing healtcare rationing every time someone is denied healthcare because of a Preconceived Condition or some other phony condition like they weigh too much, etc. The aforementioned debates are false and designed to produce fear, to immobilize and to paralyze the masses to do nothing. We must come to recognize that "Fear is the dark ones’ most powerful weapon against the light because the energy of fear not only forms a barrier between the consciousness and the soul, it refuels the darkness to keep it thriving." [Matthews Messages].

We must also recognize that "as money has in the past ministered to personal and family need, so in the future it must minister to group and world need. The time has now come when money must be re-valued and its usefulness channelled into new directions. The voice of the people must prevail, but it must be a people educated in the true values, in the significance of a right culture, and in the need for right human relations. It is therefore essentially a question of right education and correct training in world citizenship – a thing that has not yet been undertaken." [Money, The Medium of Loving Distribution, A Compilation from the books of Alice A Bailey ]

Thank God for the Agents of Change who try to make a difference in the lives of ordinary human beings, whose intentions and Duty are to uplift the conditions of the people and to serve the people.... They try to raise the minimum wage, they try to extend unemployment benefits, they try to make sure there is clean water and clean air, but its hard and there is always a fight from the best Congress money can buy, whose mission is to stall and to obstruct and to incite fear!

Angellight of PA 12:25PM November 23, 2009

Despite assurances that women at high risk would still be able to have mammograms in their 40's, like all other recommendations (in thier favor) insurance companies would no longer cover mammograms for women under 50. Just like colon cancer screening--I'm at high risk, but no payments for colonoscopies because I'm under 50. A friend died at 48 of colon cancer--had all the symptoms, but his insurance wouldn't cover a colonoscopy either. He finally paid for his own, but it was too late.

Peggy of CA 9:09PM November 20, 2009

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