New Mammography Guidelines Have Democrats Backpedaling

November 22, 2009 (LPAC)—The blogsite Washington Insider reported, Saturday, what readers of LaRouchePAC.com already know: Both the House and the Senate health reform bills will automatically adopt the new mammography guidelines if either becomes law. Author Mike Lillis writes, "Both the House and Senate health reform proposals would force insurance plans to follow new mammogram guidelines as part of a minimum swath of services deemed by the legislation to be medically essential." Lillis adds that private insurers say they often use the task force recommendations to make coverage determinations, but they're being coy, so far, as to what they'll do with the new guidelines.

Democrats in Congress are backpedaling from the new guidelines because of the huge uproar that they have triggered. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), otherwise a nasty supporter of the reform bill, said the new guidelines are "causing massive confusion" among women accustomed to screening more frequently and earlier in life. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee health subcommittee has indicated he'll hold a hearing on the new guidelines, next month. And, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is pushing legislation to require insurance companies to cover routine, annual mammograms, in addition to diagnostic mammograms, to women beginning at age 40.

But, as congress backpedals, and then spins this way and that, the truth of the matter remains, the only way to stop Obama's Nazi health reform is to join the LaRouche PAC's fight to kill the bill altogether.