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Our government just issued new guidelines for breast cancer screening which eliminate routine mammograms for women 40-49 years old, cut in half the frequency of mammograms for women 50-74, and eliminate them for women 75 or older. The American Cancer Society and other experts condemned the change.

Isn’t this rationing exactly what the “Angry Mob” has been worried about?

ObamaCare: We’re Scrooged
By Asher Embry

Our government just said we screen for cancer way too much.
They think we’re spending too much dough on mammograms and such.
(Our private doctor heard the news and summoned up a swear.)
What happened to O’s constant praising of preventive care?

And what comes next? What other routine healthcare will be lost?
Perhaps Barack will rule that EKG’s aren’t worth the cost.
Who needs a new hip, MRI or blood test anyway?
We’ll wait until the Health Choices Commission has its say.

So, we just got a glimpse of what our healthcare holds in store.
Like Scrooge, we got to see the future Congress voted for.
It’s clear the kind of treatment which ObamaCare will give.
We vote: it’s not the system under which we choose to live.

(You can read more of Asher Embry's Political Verse at www.politicalverse.com.)

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Lakeshore Drive| 11.17.09 @ 10:48AM

THIS IS HOPE ??? It's change all right!! Welcome to the world of Obamacare. My heart is already breaking for those who will not be saved by early detection. I will not take up space with my personal anecdote, just let me say I would not be writing this if it were not for a mammogram I had in my early 30's.

Robyn| 11.17.09 @ 12:05PM

Absolutely Outrageous! I guess we're headed back to the days of bloodletting and leaches . . . .Is THIS what Obama meant by "change we can believe in"? What is it with this administration that just destroys everything (EVERYTHING) it touches??!!

Steve| 11.17.09 @ 2:49PM

So it plays out.......End of life issues dictated for babies, the elderly, women, who is next in line for this type of "care". I have yet to talk to a real doctor who supports this monster bill. Kill it now!

Robyn| 11.17.09 @ 4:26PM

So why did Obama bother putting up that enormous pink ribbon on the north portico of the White House last month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month??!! Unbelievable!!!

bluecollarbytes| 11.18.09 @ 8:18AM

Here is one of the dangers of handing control over ones health to political hacks. They can simply impose 'new guidelines', having nothing to do with established recommendations of the medical community, while they claim it does. Prepare to be lied to on a grand scale as the 'sufficient' becomes to much. These lies are needed to cover up the base-lies being told now, that somehow Govt.-mandates will Improve health care quality while lowering costs. I refuse to believe that most politicians of even average intelligence are so ignorant that they believe their own spin on this threat, including Obama. He's not about his promised end results, but the ideology he clings to, which is decidedly Leftist. Obama believes govt. Should dictate in all things, so doctors who recommend more frequent mammograms 'must be simply padding their bank accounts' with frivolous tests, because the ObamaShow has deemed them unnecessary. I look forward to new guidelines on prostate cancer tests. Perhaps they should be approved, then scheduled every other several years, excluding leap year, after the age of 60, unless a confluence of other medical problems makes the cost a bad bet on govts. part. This will require a whole new field of experts, not doctors, but folks highly educated in the "fair&equal; distribution' of health care services by govt.