This year, more than 40,000 Americans will lose their lives to #breastcancer. In 2017, the American Cancer Society estimated that 9% of new, fatal cases of breast cancer were among women in their forties.
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#PALSAct would postpone U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations that could severely limit women’s access to mammograms, & was passed previously extending the moratorium on USPSTF guidelines to 2021.Show this thread
If left in place, USPSTF recommendations put women, especially young women, at risk of losing insurance coverage for essential mammogram screenings that could save their life.
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I’m proud this bill protects access to annual mammograms with insurance coverage with no-copay starting at age 40 by extending the moratorium on the USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines, and...
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also ensures that women
#veterans treated in the Veterans Health Administration do not face these same obstacles to getting the care they & their health care providers deem necessary. Learn more about our bill >>https://susanwbrooks.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/brooks-wasserman-schultz-reintroduce-legislation-to-protect-womens …Show this thread
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