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Did you hear an enormous thud around 3 p.m. yesterday? That was the sound of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius throwing her scientists under a bus.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the government's major medical advisory panel, announced that they could no longer support routine mammographies for women under the age of 50 who were not in a high risk group for breast cancer.

hey said that the number of cancer cases detected from such screening was too low, and that too many biopsies and further tests were being done in women who had hard-to-interpret test results but who turned out not to have the disease.

Emotional, snide — and even paranoid — accusations plagued the recommendation to end routine mammograms for women under 50. Some wondered why there were no true breast cancer experts on the panel. Still others suggested that the whole report was written with an eye toward the billions of dollars being spent on screening every year. And a few even wondered that if this was about men's health, rather than women's, would these scientists have been so quick to yank the plug on a screening test?

Critics of health reform sneered that this is what Obama has in mind for all of us if the government gets its cheap hands on health care — cutbacks in crucial medical benefits now enjoyed by those with private insurance.