First Mammograms and now Pap Smears?

[Just-a-Writer]

OK, I'm going to admit right up front, all of this makes me feel like a paranoid conspiracy nut.

They say it's purely coincidental that these recommendations are released now, but is it? These studies were started two years ago, but does that mean it's a coincidence? What was going on two years ago? Obama, Clinton, and McCain had health care reform plans out as they ran for the nomination of their parties.

I would really like to know who initiated these studies and why. Despite the fact that these are "independent studies" they stink of private provider. It creates a win-win for them. If health care reform passes, they are only obligated to offer coverage for what has been recommended. Yet, all of the fuss of rationing health care is being blamed on the reform bill. So it could kill the bill, or it gives private providers a means of rationing care.

Am I the only one to harbor these thoughts?

[John Turberville]

"I would really like to know who initiated these studies and why."

My guess would be the insurance companies. Why is obvious.

[Just-a-Writer]

They just stink of a long term plan to me. (told ya I sounded like a conspiracy nut! lol) Just as how this economy is apparently all Pres Obama's fault now that he's in office, they're laying these studies on his "grand plan to rule the world" even though they started before he took office. Scare and derail, that's what it looks like to me.

And it just makes me want to knock people around when they say it's HIS first steps in rationing health care. *sigh*

[Carl R Lindstrom]

There are very good reasons to be suspicious of both those who argue for these frequent "no-risk" exams, vaccines and those who have enough money and interest to argue for their eliminations. I have investigated how the big PR industry takes contracts from both big pharma AND the insurance industry and any other sector who can afford the large PR contracts that are in the billions of $. That buys their clients "independent research", media and journalists with "independent reporting", ads for "healthy living" that just happens to serve their clients interests ...
Their perfect cover is to connect everything that could reveal what they are regularly doing as "conspiracy theory" and I have learnt that the most common use of that phrase 'conspiracy theory' is to hide conspiracy. I have even heard of cases where stories are commissioned to reveal conspiracy but in such a way that it sounds like a lunatic rambling on about the subject and in the end involving aliens and angels or what not. Then the "conspiracy theory" association is not far behind. Clever and devilish.
There was a very good exposure of how big PR works, made by Adam Curtis of the BBC but now mysteriously unavailable from the BBC. It was called the Century of Self but lots of people were so fascinated by this that they published bits and pieces on youTUBE. It will change your perception of PR for ever... Here are the first four out of around 24 so you have to make a search for the rest on youTUBE's page once you have the first one up:
The century of the SELF
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLFMIdMv2c&feature=related
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSE4bUro3Co&NR=1
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDWipWqz-4&feature=related
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-oB77P1eKA&feature=related

[John Turberville]

"The century of the SELF"

This explains why the "dumbing down" and the dearth of rationality in our voting public.

[Carl R Lindstrom]

Yes and the last 7 episodes are especially interesting in terms of how political campaigns are getting their strategic planing from PR firms (like the world's largest PR firm, Burson & Marstellar who was hired to run Hillary's campaign -- nice to see that they fail sometimes)

These are fascinating
18) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL00CFrtNT4&feature=related
19) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LaJBhJH0I4&NR=1
20) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNty4ZitnJM&feature=related
21) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNUq07a-eQ&feature=related
22) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatnmohL6Jk&feature=related
23) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG377mtWlV0&feature=related
24) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdYEv5GFCU&feature=related

[alienken]

I don't think these studies were done two years ago. Everybody is right here...this stinks of Gov. beaucracy.
This is a sign of things to come from the Gov. ran health care and it will be a disaster.

[Mark F Lamb]

Wish someone could come up with an answer on this. Lives are at stake and this recommendation is a hazard to women just as the recent release that prostrate exams for older men should be curtailed. I had an uncle who died in his 60's because he forgo the exams and the disease was caught too late.

[Carl R Lindstrom]

No JaW ... then we are all "conspiracy nuts" -- lots of us feel the effects of these multi-billion dollar PR-wars, where the battles pretend to be about our hearts and minds but ultimately are just about $