Reply #10: The slippery slope here, is that insurance companies look for ANY excuse [View All]

[SoCalDem]

to NOT cover things.. anything that is not considered necessary, or that has anything "new or controversial" about it, can easily be relegated to a case by case basis, which can add months to a start-to-finish approval or denial of coverage, and many women get cancer with NO family predilection ...someone in the family is always the "first"..

I see this as a crass and callous way to deny a whole lot of 40-64 year old women that baseline mammogram. and think of the money that will be "saved" by insurance companies for all those women who end up diagnosed as Stage 4 at 48..and dead by 50.. that's 14 years of "savings" on any medical care for that woman..