Last week, the American people got a preview of life under Pelosi Care when a government panel recommended that women under the age of 50 or over the age of 74 should not receive mammograms.

Appearing on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos this Sunday, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) blasted the decision and explained that if the Democrats government takeover of health care becomes law, the decisions made by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force the group responsible for the mammogram recommendation would become the law of the land.

The ruling by the government panel is emblematic of the future of medical decisions if Congress passes Speaker Pelosis government takeover of health care, since the Pelosi bill would allow the government to determine which benefits health plans can offer to their participants, leading to rationing of care. The Wall Street Journal editorial today, Liberals and Mammography, noted as much:

"What's really going on here is that the left knows its designs will require political rationing of care, but it doesn't want the public to figure this out until ObamaCare passes. Then it will begin the campaign to instruct the rest of us that we must follow the guidance of Princeton professors about what medical care we can receive. Americans will simply have to accept that the price of government-run health care in the name of redistributive justice is that patients and their doctors must bow to the superior wisdom of HHS task forces."

Unfortunately, if the Democrats government takeover of health care becomes law, this is only the beginning of bureaucrats coming between doctors and patients.

Republicans have a better solution that empowers the doctor-patient relationship, lowers health care premiums, guarantees affordable coverage for patients with preexisting conditions, protects seniors Medicare benefits, and enacts real medical liability reform. Read more about the Republican plan at HealthCare.GOP.gov. (less info)