As the US looks at a major revamp of its healthcare plan to ensure that it reaches more and more residents, it seems that everything is leading to a political debate, and the latest in line are the new breast cancer screening guidelines which have been recently proposed. On Sunday, lawmakers split along party lines, and a former National Institutes of Health Chief appealed that women should ignore the new regulations.

While the Republicans asserted that the guidelines were more evidence pointing to the fact that the Democrats are trying to cut corners everywhere to have enough funds to put the new health care plan into action, the Democrats were quick to dispel this by saying that the Republicans were "stoking fears without facts".

Recently, a Government appointed panel had stated that women should begin regular breast cancer screening tests in their 50s, as opposed to the earlier followed beginning age of early 40s, and this statement sparked angry cries and many claimed that because of this, a taxpayer-funded health care option wouldn't pay for the screenings. "I'm saying very powerfully ignore them, because unequivocally ... this will increase the number of women dying of breast cancer", said Dr. Bernadine Healy, a director of the National Institutes of Health under Republican President George H. W. Bush.

With many experts now believing that the new healthcare plan would "set the nation toward massive government control", those opposing are urging the general population to voice its opinions and not just accept every change that is being put forward.