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Mammogram Report Was Designed To Kill Many Thousands as as Part of Obama "Healthcare Reform"

November 18, 2009 (LPAC)—Many thousands of American women would be killed if a U.S. government report recommending that women under 50 stop having routine cancer-detecting mammograms were implemented as national policy. Informed sources say that the report was commissioned 8-9 months ago, in the expectation that Obama's Nazi-like "healthcare reform" would already have been passed by now, so as to begin its implementation.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), whose "United States Preventive Services Task Force" concocted the spurious report, explicitly considers those lives which would be lost as not important, in the face of the "wasteful" screening procedures. That Agency's Director, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, is a leader of the pro-euthanasia faction of strategists that crafted the Obama Administration healthcare-rationing program.

The American Cancer Society immediately denounced the killer recommendation, when it was issued November 16. They said that the "United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ... announced that it is changing its guidelines for mammography and no longer recommends routine screening for women between the ages of 40 and 49.... The American Cancer Society continues to recommend annual screening using mammography and clinical breast examination for all women beginning at age 40. Our experts make this recommendation having reviewed virtually all the same data reviewed by the USPSTF, but also additional data that the USPSTF did not consider...."

The Society's statement continued, "In 2003, an expert panel convened by the American Cancer Society ... found convincing evidence that screening with mammography reduces breast cancer mortality in women ages 40-74.... We specifically noted that the overall effectiveness of mammography increases with increasing age. But the limitations do not change the fact that ... mammography starting at age 40 saves lives....

"The USPSTF says that screening 1,339 women in their 50s to save one life makes screening worthwhile in that age group. Yet USPSTF also says screening 1,904 women ages 40 to 49 in order to save one life is not worthwhile...."

Some 40 million mammograms are performed yearly in the U.S., mainly on the over-40 female population totaling some 70 million. Women aged 40-49 number around 20 million. Sacrificing one in 1,904 women in this age group means that thousands of lives would be lost by the "cost-saving" measures advocated by the Administration.

The USPSTF report warns of "risks" from mammography, with resultant headlines scaring people with the suggestion of radiation poisoning, etc. But the "risk" actually referred to is that a fraction of those tested get false positive cancer diagnoses and suffer anxiety.

Dr. Carolyn Clancy, the AHRQ Director whose task force issued the stop-screening recommendation, was appointed to that post in 2003. Her declared mission then and throughout her career has been to radically shift health care in favor of "evidence-based" "population medicine" that serves the financier-controlled state and breaks the physician's "outmoded" concern for the individual patient.

Along with Obama advisor Ezekiel Emanuel, Carolyn Clancy is a member of the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. She sat beside Dr. Emanuel June 10, 2009, when they were confronted by LaRouche representative Anton Chaitkin testifying on the Nazi character of their policy.

In 2005, as AHRQ's Director, Carolyn Clancy edited a seminal book (Ethical Dimensons of Health Policy) explaining why health care should be put on a genocidal basis. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote a chapter in Clancy's book, on how to end the "traditional Hippocratic health-care approach" and bring in a "population-based" system to cut costs. He complains of "the dominant Hippocratic tradition of medicine," where doctors have been "inculcated with the notion that their primary duty is to the patient for whom they are caring." He warns that the public is suspicious about the intentions of those who would deny them life-saving care, and methods of doing that must "allay their suspicions and reassure them about the integrity of the decision-making process."

The Clancy book opens with a chapter by eugenics-euthanasia advocate Daniel Callahan, calling for rationing to save money and shifting from curing disease to making death more acceptable.


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