Peter Johnson Jr. exploits Thanksgiving to fearmonger about health care reform

I dont believe this guy is a doctor at all. FOXNEWS.COM says he is a litigation and appeals lawyer and president of Leahey and Johnson (Wall street law firm that specializes in litigation and appeals). Do they refer to him as Doctor somewhere? I know it says prescription for truth which is totally misleading. It was pretty obvious he wasn't a doctor though b/c if he was, you could bet FOX would make sure you knew it.

Saying as we experiment with breast health is soooo misleading. One, he says we probably making people think he is actually a doctor when he is a lawyer. Two, this debate of cancer screenings is between the American College of OBGYN and the US preventive service task force. "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is a professional association of medical doctors specializing in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States. It has a membership of over 52,000[1] and represents 90 percent of U.S. board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists."

"US Preventive Services Task Force is "an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention that systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness and develops recommendations for clinical preventive services."[1] The task force, a panel of experts, is funded and appointed by the government of the United States"

"In response to today's US Preventive Services Task Force ( USPSTF ) statement that recommends against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and recommends screening only once every two years for women ages 50 to 74, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ( ACOG ) maintains its current advice that women in their 40s continue mammography screening every one to two years and women age 50 or older continue annual screening. The USPSTF revised recommendations are published in the November 17, 2009, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. ( Read more. )

As the organization representing the nation's ob-gyns who provide health care exclusively for women, ACOG welcomes these new review data on breast cancer screening. However, the implications of the USPSTF's recommendations for both women and physicians are not insignificant and require that ACOG evaluate both the data and the USPSTF's interpretations in greater detail. All women, along with their physicians, should individually assess the benefits and as well as the risks of mammography screening.

The USPSTF also recommends against clinicians teaching women how to perform breast self-exams ( BSE ). At this time, ACOG's position is that ob-gyns should continue to counsel women that BSE has the potential to detect palpable breast cancer and can be performed.

ACOG strongly supports shared decision making between doctor and patient, and in the case of screening for breast cancer, it is essential. "

These are all doctors. One group is composed of all OBGYNs (and almost all the ones in America) and the other is composed of primary and preventive care physicians. Both should be putting in their input. I dont think any of this has anything to do with healthcare reform. Im in medical school and they tell us that often the preventive treatment comes down to what the individual patient and doctor feel comfortable with. Excessive mammograms tests do result in adverse effects. But breast cancer prevention does have its place. Hopefully, methods will continue to improve as scientists work on finding biomarkers to indicate whether the breast cancer is indolent, intermediate - B/C or Aggressive. Such markers could bring breast cancer prevention into a whole new age. My professor told us self screenings really are not effective but if a patient wants to perform self-screenings of course, doctors will teach you and advise you of the possible risks as well as why medicine is phasing out the use of self-exams.

Serious problems require serious people to come up with serious solutions. Unfortunately half of our two party system has become a joke. They are so determined to destroy Obama's presidency that they would do at the expense of the country and the people. It really is a travesty and the GOP should be ashamed of themselves. This is also why the two party system is terrible. Not only does it limit one's options in the voter booth but it creates parties that are more interested in bringing down the other than doing their job. Hopefully, the GOP will collapse or become so radical, they become the minority. And the primaries is where we can really start picking our leaders

Doctors support health care reform because they'll have millions of potential new patients.

Logic is lost on the nutjobs.