The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (appointed by the government) cited evidence that the potential harm to women having actual exams beginning at age 40 outweighs the benefits. The American Cancer Society and the American College of Radiology argued that mammograms after 40 play a key role in reducing mastectomies and the death toll from one of the most common cancers. Daniel Kopans, a radiology professor at Harvard Medical School, said, “Tens of thousands of lives are being saved by mammography screening.” Who do you want controlling your life-or-death decisions, you and your doctors or government bureaucrats?
I listened to the talk show on WIBC-FM on Nov. 17. Dozens of women called or e-mailed the show describing mammograms that discovered cancer in their 30s and 40s that saved their lives. How can the government deny these women mammograms that can save their lives? You citizens of the United States of America should not allow this to happen to your mothers and daughters.
The U.S. Preventative Service Task Force says that only one in 1,900 women in their 40s would die from breast cancer without mammogram screening. This is approximately 50,000 women in the United States. Are you willing for your loved one to be one of these 50,000 women? Please help stop this health care insanity.
You seniors on Medicare will be denied health care just like the mammogram recommendation.
Robert Marsh
Anderson
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Letter: Mammogram opinion is alarming
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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Letter: Government officials should answer to us
We, the people, have allowed government officials to lead us into the crazy one world order. But, is it working? Well, look at the results.
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Viewpoint: Schools, volunteers reach out to pre-kindergartners, parents
On behalf of Born Learning Connection as service of the United Way of Madison County, I would like to thank all Madison County elementary schools for their generous support in making Blast Off to Kindergarten a countywide success.
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
