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Confusing new recommendations on mammograms and pap smears are playing into public fears about the increased role the federal government would play in health care if President Barack Obama’s health care reform efforts are successful.
Even some supporters of health care reform legislation, which faces a critical test vote in the Senate Saturday, say the recent spate of stories is damaging to the drive for an overhaul of the system.
“It is a framing issue and, boy, is it ever big,” said George Lakoff, a Berkeley linguistics professor who advises Democratic candidates on communications techniques. “What that does is open up the ‘death panels’ thing again… It gives the conservatives ammunition.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29783.html