So I have read through the US Preventative Service Task Force Recommendation about 10 times in conjunction with Obamacare and preventative services, as well as

So I have read through the US Preventative Service Task Force Recommendation about 10 times in conjunction with Obamacare and preventative services, as well as been involved in some of the politics behind the data sets. The US government actually tracks mammograms in the US through the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. http://www.bcsc-research.org/ http://www.bcsc-research.org/ Their research basically has it come down to a massive case of Simpson's Paradox among many important subgroups needing early screening (black women, ashkenazi women, previous radiation to the chest) that suddenly disappears when they are added together en masses. The US Preventative Service Task Force, however, is not in the business of explaining stats: it is basically a guidebook of what insurance will or will not cover, and they went with the rating they did as a compromise over the simpson paradox over the fear that these subgroups would lose coverage in high deductable plans In exchange, they actually did cause problems by not doing comprehensive DNA testing and ONLY covering BRCA testing - which is bad science.