New at Reason: Ron Bailey on Who Can Best Protect Women's Breasts

November 24, 2009

A federal advisory panel recommended last week that women between the ages of 40 and 49 no longer receive routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer. American women angrily rejected the panel's conclusion and a rattled Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius quickly disavowed the recommendation. Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues that the mammography controversy should encourage the public do some cost-benefit analysis of its own about increased government interference with health care.

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