The LuLac Edition #1010, Nov. 17th, 2009
PHOTO INDEX: GOVERNOR ED RENDELL IN SCRANTON (PHOTO FROM SCRANTON TIMES) AND PATIENT GETTING MAMMOGRAM.THE “ED” TOUR
Governor Ed Rendell blew through Northeastern Pennsylvania on Tuesday and as usual he made some news. The Governor went from Scranton to Hazleton and made known his disdain for the way government is conducted in the state. He also went on record saying that judges should be selected my merit. Rendell told WNEP TV that many attorneys talk to him about wanting to run for Judge but don’t because of the rigorous efforts to mount a fundraising campaign. Rendell also took on the lobbyists' saying to gauge the influence they have all you need do is look at the campaign contributions to legislators. With that clout,changes in tax laws are almost impossible. The Governor repeated his mantra heard often during the budget battle that 10 companies in the state including Wal-Mart and QVC, have $1 billion or more in sales in Pennsylvania, but still benefit from a 1 percent discount established in the 1920s for early submission of sales tax payments. Rendell ran through a laundry list of products and services exempted from any taxation, including candy and gum, bottled water, helicopters, gold bullion, legal fees, out-of-state sales of horses and trout (but not salmon). Those exemptions cost the state $4.3 billion in taxes.
WTF!!!!
That new breast cancer study that recommends mammograms for women over 50 and not before is pretty stupid if you ask me. I have known many women under 50 that benefited from early intervention. To me it’s almost as if we are being set up for some type of medical plan that might not insure any women’s mammography. A controversial new breast cancer study recommends women wait an additional 10 years and get routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40. The study also recommends subsequent testing every two years instead of every year. But breast cancer patients who are in their 40s said without that mammogram, they wouldn't have known they had the disease. And you really can’t blame them. What do you say to the millions of volunteers for the Susan Komen Foundation who have been busting their asses for years to make this a serious issue? What do you say to those people saved by early intervention? If anything makes the case for an individual to take care of their own health care needs this misguided testimony/recommendation is it.
posted by David Yonki @ 9:41 PM
8 comments
8 Comments:
Thanks Barack and all his homies! Wait, it'll get worse, word up!
If the Yonk gets this exorcised over a study, wait until the government tells us we HAVE to wait until 50!
BTW: Got your Swine flu shots delivered yet?
"If anything makes the case for an individual to take care of their own health care needs this misguided testimony/recommendation is it."
Does this mean you no longer support a Govt. universal health care plan?
My Medicare works just fine! Wherre were you Conservtives when Bush got us into this idiot war and was spending 12 bilion a month on Cheney's company (Haliburton)? Where were you when Bush allowed his Sec of the Treas. to ask for and get 700 billion dollars and then said he wanted NO oversight, no organization including cCongress could question what he did with the money and on and on and on. You people make me sick!
IN RESPONSE
If anything makes the case for an individual to take care of their own health care needs this misguided testimony/recommendation is it."
Does this mean you no longer support a Govt. universal health care plan?
THIS MAKES MY DESIRE FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE REFORM FOR EVERYONE EVEN STRONGER. I MEANT THAT INDIVIDUALS HAVE TO KNOW THEIR BODIES AND TAKE CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN HEALTH ISSUES, STUDY OR NO STUDY. HEALTH CARE REFORM IS NEEDED BECAUSE AFTER THAT "STUDY" CAME TO LIGHT, YOU CAN BET THAT SOME OVERPAID ACTUARY SOMEWHERE IN AN INSURANCE COMPANY WAS LICKING HIS OR HER CHOPS.
IN RESPONSE
If the Yonk gets this exorcised over a study, wait until the government tells us we HAVE to wait until 50!
THE GOVERNMENT, AT LEAST UNDER A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT DO THAT.
BTW: Got your Swine flu shots delivered yet?
I GOT MINE A FEW WEEKS BACK. NO PROBLEM GETTING IT DELIVERED TO THE THRONG THAT WAS WITH ME THAT DAY.
Wow,
this issue is catching fire!...This "advisory" should not drive reimbursement, and all voters need to impress that upon their legislators. Having said that, I believe that mammograms are risky in and of themselves. But it is a tradeoff. If I was a 40 year old smoker who had never given birth, I would probably want one every year. If I had given birth four times before the age of 35 and breast fed all four children, and no history of breast cancer in the family....now you might be ok to delay and go less frequently, but that is between you and your Doctor.
imho
Here is the answer pure and simple. Somebody noticed hat the number of mammogram given compared to the number of actually cancer detections was low enough that it was a good business decision to delay the testing till age 50. That was a business decision that the "few" lives saved were not worth the cost so big business wins again. I'll take a national medicare program every time. The health reform naysayers can kiss my rosey red cheeks and keep their BC & BS.
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