Health care overhaul: Task force recommendations key part of reform
By AdminWASHINGTON — - It is a central idea in the push to improve American medical care and control its cost: experts studying the effectiveness of treatments and procedures to determine which work best.
That is essentially what the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force did before recommending this week that women in their 40s should no longer get annual mammograms to screen for breast cancer. If the health care overhaul now moving through Congress wins final approval, such advisories could become a central element in the nation’s health care system.
But the uproar sparked by the mammogram report may also be a harbinger of a potentially revolutionary shift in the medical system that would likely bring controversy, confusion and uncertainty with it… more
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