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Dem: GOP has 'politicized breast cancer'
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast cancer survivor, slammed Republicans on Sunday for trying to use controversial new mammogram guidelines as an argument against Democrats' health care legislation.
"The Republicans, and Ms. [Marsha] Blackburn, have for the first time politicized breast cancer," Wasserman Schultz said on ABC's "This Week," where Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was also a guest.
"That is incorrect," shot back Blackburn, who had just finished arguing that the Democrats' bill would make the recommendations of the same task force mandatory and thus end up rationing care.
"The guidelines that came out this week by the Preventive Services Task Force have a direct link to what would be offered if the House and the Senate bills were to go into law, if they were to be put into law," said Blackburn, referring to the recent recommendation that women between the ages of 40 and 50 no longer need annual mammograms.
Wasserman Shultz insisted that the task force recs were just that, not rules to ration care: "As a breast cancer survivor, I came out against these recommendations. Every major cancer organization has come out against these recommendations. The task force language in that [health care reform] bill actually makes sure that preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies and other cancer screenings would be free," she said.
"They aren't going to be binding. They're recommendations."
The two women spent several heated minutes talking over one another, dueling over the interpretation of the task force's role in the underlying bill and even whether the task force was part of the Health and Human Services Department. (Wasserman Shultz: "It is not a part of HHS." Blackburn: "No, it is a part of HHS.").
Dem: GOP has 'politicized breast cancer'
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast cancer survivor, slammed Republicans on Sunday for trying to use controversial new mammogram guidelines as an argument against Democrats' health care legislation.
"The Republicans, and Ms. [Marsha] Blackburn, have for the first time politicized breast cancer," Wasserman Schultz said on ABC's "This Week," where Blackburn (R-Tenn.) was also a guest.
"That is incorrect," shot back Blackburn, who had just finished arguing that the Democrats' bill would make the recommendations of the same task force mandatory and thus end up rationing care.
"The guidelines that came out this week by the Preventive Services Task Force have a direct link to what would be offered if the House and the Senate bills were to go into law, if they were to be put into law," said Blackburn, referring to the recent recommendation that women between the ages of 40 and 50 no longer need annual mammograms.
Wasserman Shultz insisted that the task force recs were just that, not rules to ration care: "As a breast cancer survivor, I came out against these recommendations. Every major cancer organization has come out against these recommendations. The task force language in that [health care reform] bill actually makes sure that preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies and other cancer screenings would be free," she said.
"They aren't going to be binding. They're recommendations."
The two women spent several heated minutes talking over one another, dueling over the interpretation of the task force's role in the underlying bill and even whether the task force was part of the Health and Human Services Department. (Wasserman Shultz: "It is not a part of HHS." Blackburn: "No, it is a part of HHS.").