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...reform bill currently being debated would also rely on the task-force guidelines to determine what preventive medical services private insurers would be required to cover at no cost to patients. In a sign of how contentious evidence-based approaches may become, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius quickly distanced the Obama Administration from the new mammography advice. She said in a statement, "Our policies remain unchanged," and cast doubt on whether private insurance--required by most states to cover routine mammograms beginning at 40--would be affected. "Keep doing what you're doing," Sebelius advised women...
...that's unlikely to change. Take the recent uproar over the recommendation by a government-appointed expert panel that most women delay routine mammograms until age 50. As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius furiously tried to distance the Administration from the recommendation, a chorus of critics declared it a harbinger of exactly the type of bureaucratic health care apportioning they fear most. Any similarly controversial recommendation based on comparative-effectiveness research would almost certainly be neutered by Congress...
...Obama White House, of course, doesn't see it as a reversal. On Monday a lineup of prominent officials, including Secretary of State Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, spoke at a White House event to highlight the Administration's efforts on HIV/AIDS. In perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that this year's commitment has been less than robust, the word of the day was recommitment. On Tuesday U.S. global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby released a five-year strategy for what Obama officials call "the next phase of PEPfAR." As Clinton described...
...quickly disputed that notion, as well as the suggestion that the panel's advisory was a government strategy to cut costs by rationing health care. "The U.S. Preventive Task Force is an outside, independent panel of doctors and scientists who make recommendations," said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in a statement. "They do not set federal policy, and they don't determine what services are covered by the Federal Government...
...American Cancer Society promptly declared it would not modify its guidelines that healthy women over 40 get yearly mammograms. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius stated that the government's "policies remain unchanged." And most physicians say they will continue to recommend annual mammograms for women over 40. Meanwhile, thousands of women across the country have been left confused and anxious. (Read about rates of breast cancer around the world...