Comments on: Media Matters slams WaPo, American Cancer Society. (Just kidding.) http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Karen Northon http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27292 Karen Northon Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:50 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27292 Some groups have already offered up recommendations to decrease screening for prostate cancer. http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/20/npr-health-care-rationing/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114012289 Some groups have already offered up recommendations to decrease screening for prostate cancer.

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/20/npr-health-care-rationing/

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]]> By: Organizing for America: Palin is ‘dangerous.’ PS: send money. « NewsReal Blog http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27294 Organizing for America: Palin is ‘dangerous.’ PS: send money. « NewsReal Blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:09:41 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27294 [...] What is this great danger, you ask? An Army full of Major Hansans (and his cowardly careerist enablers)? Obamacare’s “death panels”? [...] [...] What is this great danger, you ask? An Army full of Major Hansans (and his cowardly careerist enablers)? Obamacare’s “death panels”? [...]

]]> By: Mason http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27293 Mason Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:09:22 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27293 How ironic that our betters in government have been chirping about the cost saving wonders of prevention and early treatment and now discourage even breast self examination. Sorry ladies, you must die early to make room for the the next generation. Move along. How ironic that our betters in government have been chirping about the cost saving wonders of prevention and early treatment and now discourage even breast self examination. Sorry ladies, you must die early to make room for the the next generation. Move along.

]]> By: I Don’t Care If Anyone But My Blogmate Reads This One « Left, Right, and Centered http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27288 I Don’t Care If Anyone But My Blogmate Reads This One « Left, Right, and Centered Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:48:00 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27288 [...] I Don’t Care If Anyone But My Blogmate Reads This One November 21, 2009 Posted by Cory Franklin in Uncategorized. trackback Just for you [...] [...] I Don’t Care If Anyone But My Blogmate Reads This One November 21, 2009 Posted by Cory Franklin in Uncategorized. trackback Just for you [...]

]]> By: John Davidson http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27291 John Davidson Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:36:52 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27291 In the VA system, I do get a notice every years to get a check-up, but they send a hearse to take me. (Just kidding, but it wouldn't surprise me if the next time it would occur.) In the VA system, I do get a notice every years to get a check-up, but they send a hearse to take me. (Just kidding, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the next time it would occur.)

]]> By: old white guy http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27290 old white guy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:28:12 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27290 in canada if you want an annual checkup you pay extra. its every two years if you want your ohip to cover it. but we pay for that too. in canada if you want an annual checkup you pay extra. its every two years if you want your ohip to cover it. but we pay for that too.

]]> By: old white guy http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27289 old white guy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:26:31 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27289 you know that we men have to pay for prostrate tests. you know that we men have to pay for prostrate tests.

]]> By: peachey http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27287 peachey Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:47 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27287 This is just the beginning at a massive scale back of preventative medicine. The next will be the elimination of the yearly physical with the lab work,EKG, etc that go with it. With the insane new reviews of mammograms and PAP's, the next will also include PSA's, chest x-rays,EKG's, treadmill exams, blood counts, blood chemistry,cholesterol and triglyceride levels,etc....Everything that has been accepted as the foundation for healthy living and the incorporation of preventative medicine will be re-written to eliminate early detection,early diagnosis and early intervention. This is the "death panel" by another name. Late diagnosis means there is a much greater probability of your death, and they will save money by not treating you because by the time you are diagnosed, the odds of cure are poor and beyond the deemed therapy guidlines for success. Thank you Mr. Obama. You and your family will receive excellent care paid for by the tax dollars saved by killing off those that are forced into the healthcare from hell program (as all Americans will eventually will be). You will be remembered, but not with the glowing adoration that you crave. This is just the beginning at a massive scale back of preventative medicine. The next will be the elimination of the yearly physical with the lab work,EKG, etc that go with it. With the
insane new reviews of mammograms and PAP’s, the next will also include PSA’s, chest x-rays,EKG’s, treadmill exams, blood counts, blood chemistry,cholesterol and triglyceride levels,etc….Everything that has been accepted as the foundation for healthy living and the incorporation of preventative medicine will be re-written to eliminate early detection,early diagnosis and early intervention. This is the “death panel” by another name. Late diagnosis means there is a much greater probability of your death, and they will save money by not treating you because by the time you are diagnosed, the odds of cure are poor and beyond the deemed therapy guidlines for success. Thank you Mr. Obama. You and your family will receive excellent care paid for by the tax dollars saved by killing off those that are forced into the healthcare from hell program (as all Americans will eventually will be). You will be remembered, but not with the glowing adoration that you crave.

]]> By: Revnant Dream http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27286 Revnant Dream Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:29:18 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27286 It won't be long before Obama makes voting for Women illegal. All the better to make way for Sharia with the Koran ruling America. Seems to me 100s of millions in tax dollars where spent telling Women to do self check exams. Money well spent I thought. Now its deemed redundant? JMO It won’t be long before Obama makes voting for Women illegal.
All the better to make way for Sharia with the Koran ruling America.
Seems to me 100s of millions in tax dollars where spent telling Women to do self check exams. Money well spent I thought. Now its deemed redundant?
JMO

]]> By: Kathy Shaidle http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27284 Kathy Shaidle Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:32:42 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27284 I don't WANT to relapse into my former ultra-feminist self, but in answer to Chris Rowan's very last question, I'm pretty sure the answer is: Don't bet on it! :-) I don’t WANT to relapse into my former ultra-feminist self, but in answer to Chris Rowan’s very last question, I’m pretty sure the answer is:

Don’t bet on it! :-)

]]> By: Chris Rowan http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/11/19/media-matters-slams-wapo-american-cancer-society-just-kidding/#comment-27285 Chris Rowan Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:03:31 +0000 http://newsrealblog.com/?p=15758#comment-27285 NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook just <a href="http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/mammograms-medicine-and-healthcare" rel="nofollow">aired a show</a> about this very topic, "Mammograms and Medicine." I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I will. Some of the comments are interesting: <i>I would very much like to hear the explanation of the suggestion to stop self exams. If we no longer get mammograms (I understand the cost/benefit argument), why cut out self exams, too? How on earth will we discover ANY tumors then?</i> I’m disgusted to hear about these new recommendations. It sounds to me like they’re laying the ground-work to refuse insurance coverage of mammograms. I can’t help but wonder if these guys are in bed with big insurance. In this day and age, what other conclusions can we arrive at?! <i>So, after decades of doctors telling everyone to know their bodies, now we are specifically telling women that they don’t need to know what is normal for this particular part of their body?</i> I’m a healthy 49 year old that breastfed 4 children and had no family history of breast cancer. I may not be alive today if I didn’t have a routine mamogram at age 40. An area of calcification led to surgery 7 years ago and a lumpectomy that discovered LCIS (lobular carcenoma in situ) or a cancerous growth in my breast. That diagnosis places me in a high risk category and my care has been very proactive and regular since that point. I worry about insurance companies that will now deny the mammogram to those women who want to choose this option in their 40’s as your speaker indicated. I also have a 43 year old niece that is currently undergoing chemotherapy after a double masectomy. <i>Isn’t it funny that now that the government is thinking about getting into the health insurance business, all of a sudden a report comes out saying you don’t need medical tests…. Are prostate exams for men going to be next?</i> NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook just aired a show about this very topic, “Mammograms and Medicine.” I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but I will. Some of the comments are interesting:

I would very much like to hear the explanation of the suggestion to stop self exams. If we no longer get mammograms (I understand the cost/benefit argument), why cut out self exams, too? How on earth will we discover ANY tumors then?

I’m disgusted to hear about these new recommendations. It sounds to me like they’re laying the ground-work to refuse insurance coverage of mammograms. I can’t help but wonder if these guys are in bed with big insurance. In this day and age, what other conclusions can we arrive at?!

So, after decades of doctors telling everyone to know their bodies, now we are specifically telling women that they don’t need to know what is normal for this particular part of their body?

I’m a healthy 49 year old that breastfed 4 children and had no family history of breast cancer. I may not be alive today if I didn’t have a routine mamogram at age 40. An area of calcification led to surgery 7 years ago and a lumpectomy that discovered LCIS (lobular carcenoma in situ) or a cancerous growth in my breast. That diagnosis places me in a high risk category and my care has been very proactive and regular since that point.

I worry about insurance companies that will now deny the mammogram to those women who want to choose this option in their 40’s as your speaker indicated.

I also have a 43 year old niece that is currently undergoing chemotherapy after a double masectomy.

Isn’t it funny that now that the government is thinking about getting into the health insurance business, all of a sudden a report comes out saying you don’t need medical tests…. Are prostate exams for men going to be next?

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