Poll: Only 22% Of Women Are In Favor Of Government Recommendations On Mammograms, Self Exams
Not at all a surprising reaction from women to a government task force announcing that women should save costs on medical care by refraining from at-home breast exams and postponing mammograms.
(CNN) - Three-quarters of American women between the ages of 35 and 75 disagree with the relaxed medical recommendations for mammograms announced by a government panel last week, according to a new Gallup/USA Today poll.
The survey released Tuesday finds 47 percent of women “strongly disagree” and another 29 percent “disagree” with the recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force last week that women in their 40s should no longer get routine breast cancer exams, and that the interval for women getting a mammogram in their 50s should be every two years, rather than every year.
Only 22 percent of those surveyed expressed support for the proposals.
The problem is that once the government is providing us with health care, or even just defining what our health insurance policies do and do not cover (both of which are powers the government gets under Obamacare), what women think about this won’t really matter. Government panels like this one will make the decision about whether or not screening mammograms are covered, etc.
This is the danger in giving a third party, especially the government, power over your health care. They make decisions not based on what you want or what’s best for you but rather on political expediency, and what’s best for their bottom line.
