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There's a simple way to know when we're getting close to decent healthcare reform. The more insurance hates it, the better it is. Insurance companies are getting desperate. They are worried that their stop is coming up, they will have to get off the gravy train. For a while they were bargaining to stay on the train, but now they are cornered. They are focused on our pocket books, which they've been robbing for decades. The recent insurance-commissioned "study" that says health care costs will soar is the desperate threat of a gigantic moneymaker feeling the possibility of its own demise.
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New research that followed nearly 400,000 women found that doing vigilant breast self exams and immediately reporting any lumps to a doctor may not be in a woman's best interests. Why not? Well. The women who actually do monthly self exams in the thorough way recommended by modern medicine "rarely find cancer early enough to save lives", however they do end up finding more lumps, and reporting them to more doctors, and getting more biopsies, mammograms, and medical attention--whether they need it or not.
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