White House Disputes Fox Report On New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer
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The White House is pushing back against a Fox News report spinning the results of a new study on breast cancer screening.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer blogged a response to a Fox report suggesting “Critics See Health Care Rationing Behind New Mammography Recommendations.”

Pfeiffer quoted from the report, which suggested “some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammographies for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care ‘rationing’ in the fight against the No. 2 cancer killer in U.S. women.”

His response:

There’s only one problem: the recommendations of this task force would actually be used to provide access to effective preventive services for free or at low-cost. The USPTF would have no power to deny insurance coverage in any way. The line of attack is actually somewhat ironic, because one of the guiding principles of reform from the very beginning in March has been to invest in significantly increased effective preventive care, something these “critics” never seemed to care much about over the past 8 months.

Pfeiffer goes on to do a Q-and-A on the new study and how it relates to the health care debate. Read the rest here.

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