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— The Hill (@thehill) May 14, 2015As many as 17 million women under age 50 may no longer be covered for mammograms under potential new guidance from a federal advisory panel, according to a new study.
...The backlash toward the draft recommendation has been fierce. The debate has pitted groups like the American Cancer Society against Breast Cancer Action, which penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Tuesday entitled, "Stop routine breast cancer screenings.
Similar guidance was also issued in 2009, which received similarly strong opposition and was essentially shelved.
The rule also drew criticism on Wednesday from Chris Jacobs, the policy director at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's think tank America Next.
He argued that the advisory panel's previous guidance had no impact, though ObamaCare has since given it the power to tell insurance companies which services to cover.
"Obamacare moved that debate from the clinical realm into the policy world by giving the task force jurisdiction over which preventive services insurers must cover," he wrote in a blog for the Wall Street Journal.
