Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown: Mammograms Are Not Effective
Just a couple of days after his campaign staff called Meg Whitman a “whore”, which then earned him an endorsement from the National Association of Gals, another great moment in Jerry Brown’s feminism has surfaced : The comment about mammograms came during an episode of “Firing Line” in October 1995, when Brown was a guest on the William F. Buckley Jr. show. He sat alongside feminist and commentator Susan Estrich during a discussion about government regulations that dealt with the death of the Clinton administration health reform proposal. Estrich discussed the component of the plan that had dealt with mammograms. “Can we get off of mammograms?” Brown interjected. “I mean, first of all, if you read the Lancet Magazine in July, there’s no statistical evidence that mammograms help anyone at any age. “So it’s July 1995, Lancet Magazine. Okay? It’s there. Now I don’t want to argue that case,” he added, as Estrich started to object. “ I just want to throw it out there.” Former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont interrupted, “But you ought to have the option — if you think they’re going to help you, if you think they’re going to help you, you ought to have the option of having one.” Brown replied, “Ten thousand women, three women will be saved for one year.” Mammograms are pretty effective if you’re one of those three women, but to Democrats pushing nationalized health care it’s not about the patient, it’s all about the costs.
Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown: Mammograms Are Not Effective
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on October 10, 2010. Filed under