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The War on Women is continuing. First it was a government agency "suggesting" the rationing of mammograms, a proven method to save womens lives via early detection.
Now, a medical organization is promoting the rationing of Pap tests, another test that saves womens lives. "Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization -- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- has done the same for a screening credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer in the U.S.
Women of all ages should undergo Pap smears less frequently than they do now, those new guidelines say. And young women are advised not to bother until age 21."
Why would doctors suggest this? "But together, the two sets of revisions might give rise to a suspicion that women's health has suddenly taken a back seat to economic pressures, cancer specialists acknowledged Thursday. The annual Pap smear is the only reason some women see a physician, and some doctors fear that, without a sense of urgency to get that test, many women might skip preventive healthcare."
Churchill had a saying, "An appeaser is one who feeds his friends to the alligators, hoping they eat him last." That is why the drug companies jumped on board, hoping the government would wait a while before they are taken over. That is why the AMA approved the government take over of health care, hoping that doctors would be able to stay private, not government employees, a while longer.
My guess is that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is hoping for some concessions on other issues by showing their "good faith" on giving women the best possible health care.
Looks like the first to take a hit on life are women. Now I know why the Left says "Women and children first". The Pap test has cut the death rate for cervical cancer by more than 50%. "Introduced in the 1940s, the test is considered the most successful cancer screen in medical history, reducing cervical cancer deaths in the U.S. by more than 70% over the last half-century. Death rates fell from 14.8 cases per 100,000 women in 1975 to 6.5 per 100,000 in 2006."
Guess Sarah Palin was right, the Obama Plan is going to have death panels, disease by disease and women will go first. Actually, it will be POOR women who will die first from cancer--rich women will be privately pay for the life savings tests like mammograms and the Pap test. Guess Obama just doesn't like poor women. What do you think?
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Now, a medical organization is promoting the rationing of Pap tests, another test that saves womens lives. "Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization -- the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- has done the same for a screening credited with drastically reducing the rates of cervical cancer in the U.S.
Women of all ages should undergo Pap smears less frequently than they do now, those new guidelines say. And young women are advised not to bother until age 21."
Why would doctors suggest this? "But together, the two sets of revisions might give rise to a suspicion that women's health has suddenly taken a back seat to economic pressures, cancer specialists acknowledged Thursday. The annual Pap smear is the only reason some women see a physician, and some doctors fear that, without a sense of urgency to get that test, many women might skip preventive healthcare."
Churchill had a saying, "An appeaser is one who feeds his friends to the alligators, hoping they eat him last." That is why the drug companies jumped on board, hoping the government would wait a while before they are taken over. That is why the AMA approved the government take over of health care, hoping that doctors would be able to stay private, not government employees, a while longer.
My guess is that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is hoping for some concessions on other issues by showing their "good faith" on giving women the best possible health care.
Looks like the first to take a hit on life are women. Now I know why the Left says "Women and children first". The Pap test has cut the death rate for cervical cancer by more than 50%. "Introduced in the 1940s, the test is considered the most successful cancer screen in medical history, reducing cervical cancer deaths in the U.S. by more than 70% over the last half-century. Death rates fell from 14.8 cases per 100,000 women in 1975 to 6.5 per 100,000 in 2006."
Guess Sarah Palin was right, the Obama Plan is going to have death panels, disease by disease and women will go first. Actually, it will be POOR women who will die first from cancer--rich women will be privately pay for the life savings tests like mammograms and the Pap test. Guess Obama just doesn't like poor women. What do you think?
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