Universal Health Scare #55: The State Of California Says No To Mammograms For Poor Women

Written by: Uncle Seth The Noble on Monday, December 7th, 2009

It’s called ‘government rationing’, a word that all Americans need to  get used to if Obamacare passes!

North County Times has the details…

The eligibility age for state-subsidized breast cancer screening has been raised from 40 to 50 by the California Health and Human Services Agency, which will also temporarily stop enrollment in the breast cancer screening program.

Advocates for low-income women, whose health care the department helps pay for, say the cuts put a two-tier system in place that is based on money rather than medical standards.

The cuts will greatly harm the clinic’s mammogram program, said Natasha Riley, manager of Vista Community Clinic’s Breast Health Outreach and Education Program.

The clinic and others like it in San Diego County provide reduced-cost care, mostly to low-income people, with money from the state and some private donations.

“More than 50 percent of the women we give breast exams and mammograms to are in their 40s,” Riley said. “The majority of our current breast cancer survivors are women in their 40s.”

The state’s decision, announced Dec. 1 and effective Jan. 1, follows a controversial federal recommendation last month that mammograms before the age of 50 are generally not needed.

However, the public health department also linked the change to California’s budget woes.

It’s no secret what’s going on in California, you have had Liberals run that state into an economic Armageddon, and now the state has to cut costs by axing government programs. As of right now people have choices, a poor women who has been cut off by big compassionate liberal government can make contingency plans by getting health from other sources that covers mammograms, but what happens when the private sector is run out of business after the feds take it all over under Obama, Reid and Pelosi care? Where do poor people go once government says no? Just ask the Canadians jumping the border to get away from their government run system!

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2 Responses to “Universal Health Scare #55: The State Of California Says No To Mammograms For Poor Women”

Jenn of the Jungle Says:
December 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am

Nothing to see here move along.

kris Says:
December 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am

Forgot to mention the wonders of “NHS Direct” http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/ Yep, a call center so you can phone it in to non-qualified dopes rather than actually see a doctor.

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