Reply #4: I haven't seen these ads but there are ads run on local TV here by an organization [View All]

[dflprincess]

that pays for screening mammograms for uninsured or underinsured women. These have been around a while and don't have anything to do with the current debate. But they are ads you'd never see in the U.K. or any other civilized country that provides its citizens with health care.

I always wonder though, these ads never tell you what happens to the women whose mammograms come back needing follow up. Last year it cost $6,000 for me to find out the weirdness on the film was benign. I was lucky and had decent insurance at the time (now, not so much) that paid most of it (and the 6k was the negotiated rate, if I had not had insurance it would have been more that twice that).

Really, is there any point in having the screening test if you can't afford the follow up? These are questions women in other countries never have to ask themselves.

I wish someone would start running ads telling the true stories of our system.