The Homa Files

TakeAway: The flap over breast cancer screening has provided a fascinating insight into life under ObamaCare.

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Excerpt from WSJ: Liberals and Mammography, Nov.24, 2009

The political left supports medical rationing even as it disavows that any such thing is happening.

No sooner had the Health and Human Services Department’s U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommended against mammography for women under 50 than Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rushed to say don’t worry.

The New York Times, ran at least four much-ado-about-nothing items even as it endorsed the reduced screening.

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

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.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574552320222125990.html

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