Health Department removes breast cancer and Obamacare info from womens health website

[bronxiteforever]

Think Progress
Amanda Gomez
April 2, 2018

The Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Office on Women’s Health removed a webpage dedicated to breast cancer and other helpful reproductive health information, including important insurance information for low-income people, according to a new report.

The Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project first reported the missing webpage. The group has been documenting page or link removals from the OWH website and shared its most recent report with ThinkProgress.

This breast cancer page did serve as a repository of links dedicated to this disease, like “Breast cancer symptoms”, “Screening and diagnosis”, “Breast cancer risk factors and prevention”, and “Government in action.” Informational pages and factsheets about the disease can’t be found elsewhere on the OWH website, according to the Sunlight Foundation’s comprehensive review.

https://thinkprogress.org/health-department-removes-breast-cancer-obamacare-information-womens-health-a75d9c1eb5db/


Cheeto and company are pro cancer. Especially if it strikes low income women.

[whathehell]

1. WHAT?

That's an outrage.

[bronxiteforever]

4. There is no limit to their evil.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Unbelievable.

[bronxiteforever]

5. It really is.

[Dave Starsky]

17. No, it's completely believable.

These people are all the absolute worst. Thoroughly evil. There are people who do shitty things for a buck, and then there are people who do shitty things just to be shitty.

[Girard442]

3. You can't give a subjugated population hope by leaving around signs that somebody cares.

Dictator 101.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Good point and sadly accurate.

[malthaussen]

7. Hey, why don't they remove ALL the info...

... just take down the website altogether? Or, I know -- leave it up, with a big "Donate to Donald Trump's Campaign Here" button.

-- Mal

[bronxiteforever]

8. Yup. We are getting there.

Or they could place a quote from a Koch funded think tank paper stating that cancer is good for the US economy and cancer is the price of your freedom.

[malthaussen]

9. Or emulate the NRA's stance...

... cancer for your children is the price of your freedom.

-- Mal

[bronxiteforever]

10. +1

[barbtries]

11. they hate women so much

they would rather see them suffer and die. bastards.

[bronxiteforever]

16. Agree. They are cold soulless creatures who wish

To exert power and control over women.

[barbtries]

41. so scared of losing the patriarchy

that they are not able to apprehend that it will make life better for everyone. i think of John Kelly waxing nostalgic over how women used to be "honored" - yeah right. chattel is more like it.

[IronLionZion]

12. Very weak excuse

“The pages were removed on December 6, 2017 because content was not mobile-friendly and very rarely used,” an HHS spokesperson told ThinkProgress

“sister HHS agencies… have the same information in a much more user-friendly format on their websites.”

As if it costs them much to keep the information posted just in case someone needs it.

We are facing a war on information and education. There is no reason to make this information harder to find. Conservative women get breast cancer too. It's not like liberal sinful living leads to breast cancer.

[bronxiteforever]

19. Agree. Also I doubt anything an Admin spokesperson says.

[smirkymonkey]

13. The war on women continues full speed ahead.

I despise these sadistic pigs.

[Angry Dragon]

18. +35,000

[bronxiteforever]

20. Agree. They are sadistic and women are a prime target.

[lark]

14. Not necessarily pro-cancer, just pro-death.

That way they don't have to pay social security which equals more money he can stal for himself and the rich. that this is about women dying is probably also a bonus for him since he hates any woman who isn't currently spanking him.

[bronxiteforever]

21. Agree.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. Let them die. IF they arent rich enough to be a doner, LET THEM DIE.

That is now the repug message, loud and clear.

[bronxiteforever]

24. "​I am going to take care of everybody,Trump said.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/24/politics/trump-health-care-promises/index.html


I guess he meant that like a Mafia Don is gonna take care of everybody.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. With just as much blood and suffering. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Well, breast cancer doesn't affect old white men!!!

So, who cares?!

[bronxiteforever]

25. +1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. Truth is that, although rare, men *can* get breast cancer too

Trump and his lackeys are too purposely ignorant to know/care about that little tidbit of medical science, however.

[MoonRiver]

23. Cancer is an equal opportunity killer.

I know many people, women and men, who died of breast cancer over the last 7 years, since I was diagnosed with early stage bc. They all had good insurance, a few were quite wealthy. This scum administration better be careful what it wishes for.

[bronxiteforever]

26. A Scum administration- it sure is that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. You are correct, however,

the wealthy that I know have access to better care, better doctors and tend to live longer than "we lesser beings" (tongue in cheek).
That is anecdotal, so take it for what it's worth.

[MoonRiver]

31. I agree in general.

I have great insurance, always got regular mammograms, and yet my breast cancer was missed for at least 3 years. Even a biopsy, 3 years before diagnosis, on the same spot where it was eventually found, came out benign. A year before diagnosis, the mammogram missed it. Fortunately it was a slow growing cancer so, 7 years later, I am NED (no evidence of disease). But if I'd had an aggressive form I might very well be dead by now.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. I am glad you are NED!!

[MoonRiver]

40. Thanks!

[Afromania]

28. Well, I know they hate "Obamacare" and that petty shit is expected.

Why the hell are they taking down breast cancer info?

[bronxiteforever]

36. Their war on women continues apace.

[egold2604]

32. These people are Calvinists on steroids

The Christian right are Calvinists on steroids. They believe in predetermination. The poor are poor because God wills it. The rich are rich because God loves them more. Since the poor are predetermined to be poor why waste good money on helping them when that money can go to the rich who are more loved by God.

[Ferrets are Cool]

35. Very close to the truth when it comes to his voters, the deplorables. nt

[bronxiteforever]

37. I see them more as sociopaths.

Born without a conscience bone.

[egold2604]

38. This is what their religion teaches them

[mountain grammy]

33. To all the women who voted for this... fuck you!

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. In more ways than one,

this could be the worst thing this hapless-yet-evil cabal has done yet.