Oh so dumb i am. i actually do read the reviews to help decide between two things i am researching. you can tell that many are bots or whatever, produced by the company. however, if one reads through the chatter, you can get some idea of the issues people have with the company. i fear these online reviews are bogus. is there any data about the number of these reviews that are actually done by the company marketing department? would seem like a good project for a graduate student. i smell a class action.

Women who have had total hysterectomies because of cervical cancer or history of HPV still require regular pap smears (http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2003/skippap.htm) there is always a risk of recurrence of cancer locally in the vaginal cuff. in addition, many women may not know about exposure to hpv and the risk of vaginal cancer. is this cost efective--probably not, but one needs to define cost effective--one in 100 or 10,000. what would you do personally or advise your mom, wife, sister if her doctor explained that the "system" would not cover the $100 dollar test. what would you do if you could not afford it. what would you do if you had to decide how to pay for childhood immunizations but the budget was strained by thousands of $100 dollar tests and you could not provide for childhood immunizations. the devil is in the details, and it depends on where you stand. these blanket assertions do no one any good. we all are going to have to decide what level of treatment is acceptable. of course, if you are the one with the cancer, you always have recourse to the tort system. so much for the savings.