This same taskforce changed the breast cancer screening from age 35 to 40, yet there was no outcry at that time. This same taskforce makes recommendations for things like prostate exams, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, stress exams, etc. Pretty much every test you are require to get that is age dependent. Yet no outcry of "government takeover" all these DECADES that they have been setting these guidelines. Gees I wonder why?

Yes this specific panel started while Bush was in office. However the government in power has no influence on the panel. It's made up of independent scientists. Otherwise, the Bush team would have hired a bunch of science deniers!

P.S. if you want to blame the CURRENT administration for something, why don't you actual WAIT until they DO something you can blame them for? Bush was in office for EIGHT YEARS and had his hands in every aspect of our lives. Since you supported him you didn't take the time to protest his bad policies. Now that you realize those policies were in fact bad, you want someone else to take responsibility for it. Classic Republicans.

Look, the problem is that Bernadine Healy cannot dispute the FACTS of the study. She knows that they are right. But she, along with every other women's health interest groups does NOT want women to rebel against the scientific and medical community. They need women to still believe in some level of routine testing. So they are going to recommend the LEAST controversial aspect of the study (every 2 years post age 50) for now. Recall, testing USED to start at age 35 before they moved it base on SCIENTIFIC data.

The same outcry happened last year when a similar government taskforce as well as the American Cancer Society came out with studies showing that routine PSA testing of men under 75 for prostate cancer should stop. Men were pissed but no one accused the Bush administration of wanting to kill men! The men's health interest groups told men to ignore the studies and continue testing because the outcry became ridiculous.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/PreventiveCare/10421
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AUA/13962

Look you Moron,

the Task force has been working since 2002 and published their data recently. It took years to COLLECT THE DATA, and takes up to 12 months to simply put the study into publication. Unless, Bush and Obama secretly changed bodies Obama was not in office when the study was done.

Obviously by your ignorant statements you have no idea how scientific research is done. And you seem to have NO idea about the taskforce. It takes YEARS to collect data, analyze and then publish. If it's published in NOVEMBER 2009, it means data collection was finished no later than a year ago in 2008.

The same Taskforce meets every decade or so to repeat the same process and have been doing it for many, many, many years.

It happened on Barack-Nationalist Socialist-Obama's watch ergo it's Barack Obama's fault. That's how it works.

That's why you didn't see the Republicans blaming Clinton for things in 2000/2001!!!!!

P.S. did you have a similar cow last year when a similar task force came out against routine testing of men under age 75 for prostate cancer? Lots of people were pissed but some how none blamed Bush. Same government task force, same change in biblical preaching about screening for a cancer that attacks a gender specific organ. Same level of coverage by the mass media.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/PreventiveCare/10421