Sen. Hutchison calls for investigation

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has joined twenty other U.S. Senators to call on the Senate’s health committee to hold hearings to investigate how the government’s advisory panel came to its controversial findings. Last week the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force made a recommendation that women between the ages of 40 and 49 should not receive routine mammograms.

“Routine screening and early detection for breast cancer has helped save thousands of women’s lives,” said Senator Hutchison. “This government task force’s recommendation against routine mammograms for women under 50 is a step backwards for American women’s health. As we are debating health care reform in the Senate, this should serve as a wake-up call that if the government takes over our health care, it would mark the beginning of rationing of care.”

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