Health Care Reform is a Deficit Reducer

**HM2VikingRN** · Nov 21, 2009, 09:53 PM

The rising cost of US Healthcare (without reform)

From BBC

The Commonwealth Fund analyzes the reform packages.

*Man In Black* · Nov 22, 2009, 02:08 PM

"preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies and other cancer screeenings would be free."

*Man In Black* · Nov 23, 2009, 08:34 AM

The actual recommendations:

Women who are at increased risk for breast cancer (e.g., those with a family history of breast cancer in a mother or sister, a previous breast biopsy revealing atypical hyperplasia, or first childbirth after age 30) are more likely to benefit from regular mammography than women at lower risk. The recommendation for women to begin routine screening in their 40s is strengthened by a family history of breast cancer having been diagnosed before menopause.
The USPSTF did not examine whether women should be screened for genetic mutations (e.g., BRCA1 and BRCA2) that increase the risk for developing breast cancer, or whether women with genetic mutations might benefit from earlier or more frequent screening for breast cancer.
In the trials that demonstrated the effectiveness of mammography in lowering breast cancer mortality, screening was performed every 12-33 months. For women aged 50 and older, there is little evidence to suggest that annual mammography is more effective than mammography done every other year. For women aged 40-49, available trials also have not reported a clear advantage of annual mammography over biennial mammography. Nevertheless, some experts recommend annual mammography based on the lower sensitivity of the test and on evidence that tumors grow more rapidly in this age group.

*Man In Black* · Nov 27, 2009, 10:57 AM

Deficit reduction calculator

But if we fail to contain health care costs, then it will be almost impossible to prevent exploding future budget deficits.

*Man In Black* · Dec 03, 2009, 11:00 AM

The political process does work. Mammogram coverage was just passed by the senate.

An amendment to the Senate health care bill, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), became the first amendment voted on in the Senate.

Mikulski's amendment requires insurers to cover preventive care and screenings for women, at no cost to the patient. The amendment passed 60 to 39.

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