One size fits all?

Summary



In an article on pointofview.net , it talked about some scenarios that have people worried about the President's pruposed health care plan. It started by stating the United States prevenative services task force's new mammography guidelines. Apparently, according to these new guidelines, it is not recommended for women under the age of fifty to receive the breast cancer screening procedure at all. Also, according to the guidelines, women fifty and up are only suposed to receive the screening every other year. Carrie Luckas, the vice president of policy and economics with 'Women's Forum', is concerned that under nationalized health care, these guidelines would be mandatory. She is worried that the government would adopt a 'one size fits all' approach to health care. Luckas is not so concerned with whether the guideline is correct, as she is that it would be the government making that decision, when it should be between a woman and her doctor.



Response



I agree completely with Carrie Luckas. The idea of the government making life, death, and health decisions about my life instead of me, just doesn't rub me the right way. I hardly think that when our forefathers wrote the bill of rights, and the preamble to the constitution, and the constitution itself, that absolute government soveignty over our lives right down to something as personal as our health care decisions, was what was on their minds. The part that really grabs me the wrong way, is the idea that the government could under Obama's plan, have the ultimate say over my kids' health and their healthcare. The more things that the goverment take control of, the less aspects of our own lives we get to decide on for ourselves. I know that there are alot of people who probably make foolish decisions, but I think that the goverments envolvement should be in educating people to make better more informed decisions. I don't think that taking over our decision making, and taking away our personal freedoms, is the answer to our healthcare problems.