Mammogram Flap Portends ObamaCare's Rationing - WSJ.com: "The flap over breast cancer screening has provided a fascinating insight into the political future of ObamaCare. Specifically, the political left supports such 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 decision had 'caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women,' she said, promising that no policies would change. New Jersey's Frank Pallone vowed to hold hearings, and Senator Dick Durbin leveled the gravest charge Democrats can make: The task force was 'appointed by President Bush.'
The political duck-and-cover was also on display in that vanguard of ObamaCare known as the New York Times, which ran at least four much-ado-about-nothing items even as it endorsed the reduced screening. On the same day as an editorial and op-ed, a front-page 'news analysis' lectured that what the public really needs is 'a transformational shift in thinking' about the 'evidence-based' medical future that the mammogram decision portends. Yes, and no doubt the Times will tell us what 'evidence' to follow."
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