My first thought was that, with this recommendation, that insurance companies are going to use it as an excuse to deny payment to younger women who have a good reason (family history, etc.) to get mammograms. Breast cancer is being diagnosed in younger and younger women, a lot of them without any risk factors besides being a woman.
I'm getting really sick of people assuming that doctors are just in it for the money. MOST are not. MOST want what's best for their patients. Of course, the bad apples who are ripping people off get all of the news, so it seems like there's a lot of them. But they are the vast minority.



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