RNC: Breast cancer recommendations may lead to 'rationing'
Leaders of the Republican National Committee say revised recommendations issued by a government-funded panel that say women only need to be screened for breast cancer after the age of 50 could be the beginning of health care rationing by the government. RNC Chairman Michael Steele and co-chair Jan Larimer wrote a letter to President Obama Thursday, obtained by the Washington Times, that calls the new recommendations a "thinly veiled attempt to save money by limiting mammograms has the effect of placing a dollar value on a human life." The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, an independent panel of doctors and...
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