Just three months after an authoritative epidemiological study found that PSA screenings for prostate cancer are likely to do more harm than good, an influential group that provides guidance to doctors, insurance companies and policy makers has tossed its commitment to breast cancer screenings for women under 50 in the trash.The New York Times and just about every other paper reports on the big switch, which is founded on evidence that too many tests have led to too many treatments of too many cancers that would have done little harm if left alone, but whose treatment seriously damaged quality of life.
Read more about the new ideas about mammograms in the New York Times.
The simpliest way to keep the cost of health care down to a manageable level ( as far as the insurance companies and the gov’t may be cnocerned) is to not provide the same by either telling those in need that they are not in need or simply not providing health care.
Here in the USA, health care, like everything else, inclduing religion, is a product sold to the consumer on demand and at an artificially infalted price.
this all goes well with the fact the major drug manufacturers just raised the prices of their wares in anticipation of the new federal health care proposals…
We don’t have to worry about a foriegn enemy (we grow enough of our own right here…)