Originally Posted by
Pluto
I don't want some faceless committee or agency cube dweller making a decision that my physician and I should make. Stay out of my business. I've already had skin cancer, so my risk profile is a little higher. This crap needs to stop. Next thing you know, some cube dweller will want to regulate how much lube I put on my bike chains.
The only thing that any committee or agency can decide is who gets to pay for the test, you or your insurer. If it's your insurer, then it means increased premiums for you or your employer, if your employer is government, then everyone gets to pay for it, with increased taxes or your great-grandchildren get to pay for it, in the future. If your employer isn't government then people who buy it's products or services get to pay for it. If you get to pay for it. then it's money that's out of your pocket, money that could have been used for something else.
The whole issue is that the test costs around $45, or at least it does here in Canada, is the benefit worth spending $45 or isn't it. For some people it is, for some it isn't. Interesting that in the US a positive PSA means a biopsy right away, you would think an Ultrasound scan would be done first, to see what the prostate looks like, maybe take some measurements, rather then scheduling an invasive procedure right away.