Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Stop drive-thru mastectomies

This took me less than a minute to do.

Mastectomy Hospital Bill in Congress
If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you may know
that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance
companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure. Let's give
women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after
surgery.
Mastectomy Bill in Congress

It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very
important...please take the time and do it really quick!

Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation
for all women.
Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there
was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is
one of those times. If you're receiving this, it's because I think you
will take the 30
seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to
others you know who will do the same.

There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection
Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour
hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about
eliminating the "drive-through
mastectomy" where women are forced to go home just a few
hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy
from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still a ttached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page
with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House
signed on.

PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site
below
. You need not give more than your name and zip code number. (Only *
items are required info) Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

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