does, that medicaid improves screening for cancer, hiv, high cholesterol, and everything like that. screening doesn t necessarily transsbliet decreased mortality, but they did find that by implementing these improving access to care will save tens of thousands of lives. how is that going to help the downward spiral that we hear so much about. there is a couple things to bear in mind here. this includes kids, the disabled, the populations that say these are the most sympathetic folks. the question around the senate and house legislation is what you do with the expansion population. the people that were added on to medicaid by the affordable care
now, eliminate the essential health benefits package which for breast cancer survivors like me means the kind of health care coverage they would be able to buy won t actually provide coverage and you ll go back to the days when women, sister survivors like mine would say, you know what, debbie, i had to choose between the chemo or the radiation because my insurance coverage wouldn t let me afford both. that s unacceptable. let s take another step down that road. price laid out several different things. i want your response. al la carte care, he s saying it s better to take it out because then chris cuomo who doesn t need prenatal care, doesn t need the same kind of screening doesn t pay for it. good for him. what is the downside to that policy? what happens then, number one, you take all the women who are of child bearing age and
played. the study showed a 15% reduction for women in their 40s and 32 reduction for women in their 60s. but they found that false positives resulted in anxiety and unnecessary surgery. there s a different study every week that says mammograms don t work, screening doesn t work? i ve had two scarce. you ve got to. unless there is a better option put out there, these numbers don t do anything for me. are you going to not get screenings because you might get anxious or you might have to have another screening? i sat there for three weeks with something that they thought they saw and found out they didn t.