Fox is a big fat liar on to claim Obamacare is rationing treatment.

[applegrove]

(Fact is mammograms don't render properly until a woman is 50. There is too much hard tissue blocking the way of an accurate screening when a woman is 40. That is the reason why the recommendation changed. I know this because I went to a medical lecture with my doctor mother almost 20 years ago. Applegrove)

Fox Hosts Anti-Obamacare Activist To Rehash False Claims About Mammogram Rationing

by THOMAS BISHOP at Media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/09/25/fox-hosts-anti-obamacare-activist-to-rehash-fal/196077


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Fox Guest Dr. Held: Obamacare Recommends "Don't Even Start Your Mammograms Until Age 50." On Fox & Friends, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck discussed mammogram recommendations with Dr. Kristen Held. Held claimed that, because of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force "said don't even start your mammogram until age 50" and added that it would ration care for the elderly:


HELD: Obamacare takes a disproportionate hit on cancer patients. And if you look at breast cancer, one out of eight women diagnosed with it in our lifetime, but we have the longest survival rates and the earliest diagnosis rates because of mammogram. Well, Obamacare has panels and task forces which have changed the very recommendations.

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HELD: Well, traditionally, the American Cancer Society and [unintelligible] care is to have a mammogram every year starting at age 40. Well, this task force came in without a single breast cancer specialist on it and said don't even start your mammograms until age 50 and then every other year until 74 and then stop. What's really surprising is that a study recently showed that these younger women have a higher death rate. These are young women who have kids at home, they're active professionally, and particularly African-American women are most commonly hit in this young age group, and they're more likely to die of breast cancer. And now we have recommendations not even to get the mammograms when we know that delaying your diagnosis increases your chances of dying from cancer. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/25/13]


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[gopiscrap]

1. what else would you expect from Fox

[applegrove]

2. Just trying to slam down the meme in case it gets out there.

[gopiscrap]

4. Excellent

[underpants]

3. They are trying to call the game before it starts

complete desperation

[chelsea0011]

5. Medical care is not static. Like mammograms, the PSA test has

been getting a second look as a screening for prostrate cancer. Once a yearly test starting at age 50 may become reconsidered. And that is the way it should be if the test is shown to be ineffective. What galls me about these people is they could care less about taking food from children and elderly, the real death panels, and take a position on medical tests that may be costly and unnecessary but claim people will die over this.