Lets Talk About Mammograms Lady's

The past two presidential election President Obama's campaigns has worked hard towards winning women’s votes by bringing forth the contraceptive mandate and free preventative services as part of his Obama care sales pitch, but let’s talks about what Obama care is going to do about your mammogram lady's.

Under Obama care, the preventive services task force (USPSTF) is recommending changes when it comes to breast cancer screening guidelines. Here are four of the six guide lines below

• Routine screening of the average-risk women should begin at age 50, instead of age 40.
• Routine screening should end at age 74
• Women should get screening every two years instead of every year
• Breast self-exams have little value

#1, Routine screenings of the average-risk women should begin at age 50, instead of age 40. Fact: mammograms detect 85-90 percent of breast cancer. In 2011 a study done by breastcancer.org stated about 85% of breast cancer occurs in women who have no family history of breast cancer.  Sense the release of  uspstf recommendations, research has found that out of 205 cancer positive patients 33 percent were between the ages of  40-49, leaving us to wonder how many patients would go un-diagnosed in their earlier stages of cancer,  if physician are require to make this change.

#2 Screening should end at age 74. This makes me mad, who beside God himself, decides when a human should be denied quality care, when do we stop fighting for their life? Guidelines state that they will not ban anyone from getting a mammogram if they feel it is necessary but it is not yet known if the insurance companies will cover under new regulations. - Vice chair Petitte MD told WebMD "these new guidelines don't imply that women younger or older than 50-74 should never be screened."- They just seem to be making it a little harder. American cancer society national volunteer president Fontham MD says that there is a good chance that Medicare and private insurance will have to stop paying for annual mammogram screenings for women in their 40's and over 74 because of rising health care cost brought on under the Obama administration.

#3 Women should get screenings every two years instead of every year.  This is a decision that needs to be made by the physician or radiologist base on the patient history, needs and risk factors; this decision should not be decided by a task force. This is a perfect example of our new health care systems agenda, putting boundaries between physician and patient’s relationship.

#4 Breast self-exams have little value. The preventive services tasks force says that based on studies showing that there is no signification difference from the women that do self-exams then the ones that did not do them. According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1833942/ study’s, they state that they have good enough evidence to supporting the encouragement and teaching of self-breast exams. 

Americans need to come to the realization that the day is coming when their physicians will not only have trouble ordering preventive screening for a certain age group, but they will be under guidelines telling them how to manage and practice patient care. I like many health care workers are seeing changes, it’s time to become active. It will not be the president or the task force who will be denied care, it will be your health care that is denied.