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Women’s Health: Confusing New Mammogram Guidelines

By Preventive Medicine, Primary Care, Women's Health 4 Comments

A preventive medicine task force just suggested that women not have mammograms in their 40’s and should only be screened every two years after that. And don’t bother with breast self-exam or your doctor’s breast exam. And the gynecologists’ task force declared that no women should have Pap smears before age 21 and less frequently thereafter. What to make of this? Ask your doctor, they say. How do we make sense of this?

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Health Care 2: Health Insurance Essentials

By Health Care Policy No Comments

We need first to tackle the basic issues of health insurance. Preexisting conditions and other inequities. Do individuals get treated like groups? Are groups all treated the same? What is the range of insurance costs attributed to people of different ages? Ultimately, we must get everyone an affordable ticket to the health care arena. That’s what the fight is about. Then we need to manage our resources better.

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