Obama’s new cancer Rx is a war on men

cmumford · 2015-11-30T00:32:35+00:00

This may actually be reasonable. You guys should check out a book titled The Great Prostate Hoax: How Big Medicine Hijacked the PSA Test and Caused a Public Health Disaster. There isn't a strong correlation with PSA results and prostate cancer. This was written by the dude that discovered the prostate specific antigen.

MenandBoysareGood · 2015-11-29T20:54:26+00:00

Sometimes screening tests are overused. It's a medical issue. You have to consider not only the risk of missing a case, but also the increased morbidity of treating things that never would have caused any problems. It's really not as simple as this article is implying, and this is written by an outright anti-Obamacare propagandist in the Rupert Murdock owned New York Post.

I'll wait for a more thoughtful and impartial opinion before I pass judgment.

TheDude41 · 2015-11-30T00:13:37+00:00

FYI, you don't need a doctor / insurer to gatekeep your access to PSA testing for prostate cancer.

PSA testing can be purchased for relatively low cost direct by consumers, without having to ask your doctor or insurer for "permission."

https://labtestsonline.org/

Your body, your choice!

You would simply forward the results to your family physician or personal doctor, and have him / her interpret the results and recommend additional testing, if necessary.

And if in the process you do find you have prostate cancer and your diagnosis was delayed, feel free to sue the shit out of your accountable care organization (ACO), HMO or other insurer engaging in these practices.

Clearly, if you are male in the western world, your governments are not looking out for your back. So do it yourself.

Gathering together enough similarly situated men should be helpful, as it creates the possibility of banding together in a class action.

Most, if not all of the physicians who participated in generating the USPTF guidelines on PSA testing had one form of fiduciary conflict of interest or another (they all receive federal money in one way or another), and, in so far as time frame is concerned, the policy was born in the crucible of the debate on Obamacare and controlling costs, in this case by treating men in the usual manner of denying services to save big mother the trouble.

2015-11-29T20:51:25+00:00

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2015-11-29T20:15:51+00:00

This needs to be more popular, it is too important to ignore

TracyMorganFreeman · 2015-11-30T02:41:27+00:00

Less care can be better when false positives are a thing and spending versus outcome is better allocated elsewhere. Then again the latter is a problem with collective funding.

TheDude41 · 2015-12-01T05:18:36+00:00

Looks like we've been brigaded.

TheDude41 · 2015-11-29T22:09:36+00:00

Chivalry is complete shit.

Here's hoping for a massive class action suit to be levied against health systems that have discouraged PSA testing in men.

Hopefully also, the panel that produced the recommendation.

2015-11-30T06:46:39+00:00

Let's not go down the whiny ass feminist road and start calling everything a "war on men" please.

darngooddogs · 2015-11-29T18:51:37+00:00

He will never defeat us!

Title	Obama’s new cancer Rx is a war on men
Author	cavehobbit
Upvotes	77
Comments	26
Date	November 29, 2015 3:44 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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