Rep. Blackburn Blasts Government Panel's Ruling on Mammograms

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.

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[kmg501]

The federal government has absolutely no authority whatsoever to be involved in medical care in the manner that it has been since 1965.

Unfortunately it will take a complete financial collapse to force them back into the constitutional box that they belong. And that is coming.

[veriteez]

Let's start by making Obama read the damn thing!!!!!!! He's got his panties in a wad because he wants this passed so badly. He goes overseas and visits china, but yet he can't read the bill he's trying to cram down our throats!!!!! scumbag!!!!

[radiodj1520]

I Believe This Was A Video Clip Of ABC News' This Week With George Stephanopoulos' Report On Rep. Blackburn Blasts Government Panel's Ruling On Mammograms On Sunday Morning, November 22, 2009.

[stringlov]

It's Time to Tax the Rich make USA no.1

[flyboymd82]

This lady is one of the top 10 best reps the U.S. has!

Keep kicking libtarded ass!!!!!!!!

[Caleb6543]

This bill is WAY too complex to even have a ghost of a chance of working correctly.

[voyeurdug]

Watched the whole series of exchanges - on another channel - and have looked through both bills online. Blackburn is at least misleading, or plainly wrong, on each point she makes. And each time the other politician or panelist tries to interject an item of contrary evidence, she just talks (not shouts - that's nice) over them to introduce further untruths, and approved talking points from the obstructionist script.

[ka7krz]

GET A SPELL-CHECKER!!! Get a life as well.