text: Poor health reporting. 
  
  Report cases per 100,000 population not absolute numbers.  The cost savings from reducing the pap screening frequency would be useful information, as would the approximate cost of annual chlamydia screening being proposed.  How much would it cost to prevent each additional case?
  
  More testing means more lives saved, but there are cost tradeoffs. If women got paps every wednesday we'd catch even more, but it's silly to propose that.  Give people the context they need to properly assess public health stories.