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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (4121)	1/29/2008 4:27:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Yes, from what I know about mammograms (and I admit I'm not expert) it does seem dumb to pass them up to save $12, that is unless they are offered so frequently that your reaching the point of diminishing returns. (Once a year? great, once every six months? maybe too much, once every month, almost definitely too much, might do more harm than good). But I don't think these people where passing up mammograms because they got one last month. Also its not just the $12. The screening rate for people with free mammograms is only 8% higher (the article didn't give the exact rates, but it seems clear that its nothing like 92% for $12, and 100% for free, probably not even close)