RNC Women

Americans across the country were outraged when a panel that is part of Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services made outrageous new recommendations about breast cancer screenings for women. This morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele and I sent a letter to President Obama expressing our outrage at the decision.

Using better evidence to inform doctors in their treatment decisions is important. However, this panel’s conclusions weren’t based on sound research, but instead on absurd value judgments which put women’s lives at risk.  Health care policy expert Linda Gorman sums up the bogus scientific analysis used by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force like this: “What are the costs that the Task Force measured against the benefit of a 15% reduction in mortality in order to come up with its ‘small net benefit?’  No one knows because they don’t say.”  This panel can be ignored today, but if Obama’s government run health care experiment passes, we’ll have to accept the ... more