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Sen. Barrasso: Gov’t Mammogram Panel Would Have Killed My Wife, Is First Step In Rationing of Care
By PoliJAM | November 24, 2009
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) said that had his wife waited till she was 50 years of age to go in for her first mammogram as the government’s Preventive Services Task Force now recommends in its new guidelines, his wife would have been already dead.
Barrasso warns that the new controversial mammogram guidelines are an example of the first step towards the rationing of care in the United States if a government run health care plan is passed.
Share This“We just saw this past week the first step in rationing of health care in the country with this panel that they have, this preventive panel of government – panel that says women between 40 and 50 shouldn’t have mammograms.
“You know, my wife Bobby is a breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed by a mammogram, went for an operation, the cancer had already spread. The mammogram has saved her life. But yet this preventive panel, that the bill says, this health care bill says, ‘Oh no, they’re the ones that get to decide what prevention measures are paid for or not.’ That panel would have not allowed her to have this care.”
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