A Gallup/USA Today poll shows that 69 percent of women disagree with a death panel U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation to delay mammograms until the age of 50.
Democrats have been trying their best to do damage control, but as The Washington Independent reported:
The Democrats downplaying the gravity of new recommendations for breast cancer screening have left out an inconvenient fact: their health care bills would automatically adopt them.
Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow the new mammogram guidelines for women ages 50 to 74 as part of a minimum swath of services deemed by the legislation to be medically essential. The recommendations were an unexpected wildcard in the middle of an already contentious health reform debate, and they've caused Democrats to de-emphasize their significance at the same time that some in the party are calling for a legislative fix to nullify them.
The Wall Street Journal editorial page sounded off on the controversy today.
