With heavy negotiations going on behind the scenes to push the health care bill through, I have to question the reasons behind the issuance of the new recommendations and wonder if this is part of the cost saving measures that will be needed to get this bill passed. There is no questions that the current guidelines save lives but the government belives that they don’t save enough lives to justify the cost! Any change will result in more cancer diagnosis at a later stage, making them more difficult to treat successfully, not to mention the difficulty women will have in obtaining authorization for the examination. I’m curious if the doctors who claim that they practice “defensive medicine” will adhere to the new recommendations or continue to order annual mammograms for women over 40? For the public sake, lets hope that they continue to follow the American Cancer Society guidelines.

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