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Mammogram Backdown Hurts Health Reform

Sebelius played politics, missed chance to show leadership

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 20, 2009 1:50 AM CST

(Newser) – Health secretary Kathleen Sebelius has set back the cause of health care reform in her rush to distance herself from the recommendation of her own department's task force concerning mammograms, writes Steven Pearlstein. The advice that women under 50 shouldn't get annual mammograms was based...   Read full story »

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