Nov 18, 2009
This guest post comes from a friend of mine. Russell Kruse is an attorney in a neighboring small town, engaged in a varied practice of law, much like my husband. He became a friend through our mutual participation in our County Central Committee. He actively speaks out against progressive agendas.
I wanted to put his post here because he believes, just like I do, that the announcement {ironically/painfully on the HEELS of Breast Cancer Awareness month} flies in the face of reality and speaks to a murky churning in the water that Republicans warn about: managed care. This is no more a revelation than a prime example of how liberties will be taken with YOUR HEALTH in order to drive down cost. You may wish to believe we live with substandard care when IN FACT we only now face high cost of care. Cost containment, utilization management and primary care are all great examples of real life solutions. I vehemently urge you to consider this road which the Democrats in Congress find appropriate: government rationing. Background story from MSNBC {no less}
President Obama’s medical czars recommend that women in their 40’s no longer get any annual mammograms or breast cancer exams, and that women in their 50s cut their annual exams to alternating years. This bureaucratic recommendation flies in the face of decades of medical recommendations from the American Cancer Society, and my grandfather, father and sister, all of whom were/are practicing primary care M.D.s. Obamacare says that such screening only saves 1 in 1,900 lives of women in their 40s and only 1 in 1,300 lives of women in their 50s, and results in unnecessary costs for many cancer free biopsies. Obama’s first death squad committee has decided that saving those middle aged women is too expensive.
My mother was that one in 1,900 women in her 40s who was saved by this screening and early treatment, to lead a cancer free life, and see her grandchildren. Under Obamacare, she would have died of breast cancer at age 45.
This is just the first bitter taste of Obamacare’s medical care rationing. Breast cancer is a very common, but treatable cancer, if detected early. Women are the first victims of Obama’s arrogantly and incompetently run health care system. Obama wants to substitute his czar’s judgment for that of your practicing doctor and even the American Cancer Society!
Obama took offense this summer about rumors of death squads deciding people’s medical care. Yet his first death squad was already at work, making its recommendation before the Senate even voted on government health care.
Tell your Senators Bond and McCaskill you won’t stand for this type of arrogant, incompetent medical treatment.
Russell J. Kruse,
Concordia, MO
Women: This post which was brilliantly produced by my friend Danielle Smith is how we OUGHT to be encouraging women. Please be sure to take the time to watch it , I find her courage and willingness to encourage others inspiring.
I hope you will have the courage to tell Congress that we must start anew. Refresh this issue with facts. Bathe it in solutions that have WORKED elsewhere and pass legislation *not* in haste and for political prowess, but rather for the long term success of our nation, with our citizens well cared for.
For fairness sake: the Administration through HHS Director Kathleen Sebelius went on the record late today encouraging {back-peddling} women to begin scans at 40. You can read that story here. This isn’t the back and forth of private sector vs. the Government. This was a government task force’s finding that was sent out into the public as a means test. It failed. Now they scramble.
You ready for the back and forth of what the Administration will say and what they will put into the mouths of their “panels” or “task forces” in determining every aspect of your care? They are testing the water to find what they can get away with, just as they did with the HC bill in Congress, and then they will swiftly act.
Are you on the phone with your Senator yet?
