[quote] The US Preventive Services Task Force ruled last week that screening for prostate cancer is a waste of money.
Get ready for many more such outrages: This is the agency that will determine which preventive services ObamaCare will require health plans to cover free of charge.
The task force claims that screening all adult men with the PSA (protein-specific antigen) test doesn’t prevent death from the disease. It argues that “the number of men who avoid dying of prostate cancer because of screening after 10 to 14 years is, at best, very small.”
Adding to the “costs” of the test are “false positives” — they tell people they have cancer when they don’t about 10 percent of the time. The task force thinks this problem makes the cost of screening higher than the tiny benefit screening generates for society... [/quote]
u do realize that the entire United States government is full of politicians whos only goal is to line their pockets and further their political career and they don't give two flying fucks if Americans suffer or not right?
u do realize that the entire United States government is full of politicians whos only goal is to li
