Posted by
One Mad Mama on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:29:07 PM
Well, I see in today's Wall Street Journal that a government-funded "authority" is recommending that women under the age of 50 no longer have routine mammograms and that women over the age of 50 be screened only every 2 years instead of annually. They claim that this applies only to women who have no family history of breast cancer and those who don't have genetic mutations associated with breast cancer.
Two questions come to mind: First, are they aware that the majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year have no family history of the disease? Second, how are we to know which women have genetic mutations that increase their risk of the disease unless we screen all women?
Make no mistake about it: this is a prelude to government-run health care. First step: start getting people accustomed to the idea that they don't need those routine health screenings as early or as frequently as the current standards indicate. That way, when they can't get them in the future because of health care rationing, they won't feel they're missing out on too much.
The callous disregard for human lives inherent in this policy is appalling and disgusting. Like so much of the Obama administration, it's also morally bankrupt.