Today the Obama administration back pedaled from the federal advisory board’s recommendation on mammograms is not government policy. The more you peel back there are so many layers, as each layer is peeled back you cannot help starting to cry about where we are headed. Let us start with the obvious the federal advisory panel that made this new recommendation about breast cancer has no oncologist on the panel. The Preventative Services Task Force is independent; the Department of Health and Human Services Web site calls the panel’s recommendations, “the gold standard.” Today we saw some spin out of Health and Human Services from tax cheat Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, she told CNN mammograms remain an important life-saving tool in fighting breast cancer. This can not un-ring the bell as the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force said Monday that women in their forties should not get routine mammograms. You do not have pull your head up to far to see what is going on here, the insurance companies look to the panel for guidance on which preventive care practices they should cover. We heard immediately from the American Cancer Society rejecting these new guidelines as it is clear this layer of healthcare would have insurance companies using these new recommendations to justify denying mammogram coverage for women in their forties. The more you hear this healthcare stuff the more layers we peel back of this rotten onion, the worse the smell and we know there is no way to stop these things once it becomes part of government culture.