Important! Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act

[alicia-w]

MASTECTOMY HOSPITAL BILL in Congress

A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. 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.

It takes 5 seconds to do this and is very important...please take the time and do it really quick!

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 attached.

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 only give your NAME, ZIP CODE and EMAIL.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast ... ledge.html

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family and, on behalf of all women...THANKS!!

[Bellarose]

Thanks so much for the link. I signed it and passed it on. My mother and grandmother are both breast cancer survivors. I can't imagine the mindset behind making this an outpatient procedure. It infuriates me, to put it mildly.

[Beam]

Signed, and sent to several people. My sister had to undergo a mastectomy in 2001, and there's no way she could have gone home in a few hours. It would have been terrible. Women shouldn't be put through that just because of insurance company fat-cats who don't want to give their own customers a proper recovery. God knows we have enough problems in this country's medical system without these dollar-general insurance companies trying to pull a fast one like this.

[angelwing]

Signed and passed on. Will also let the cancer hospital that I work at know, you would not believe how many women have it and the ages

[pojo]

I signed it That is ridiculous!

[JonathanBelles]

I signed it.

[CajunMama]

I signed it and sent it out by email also!

[SusanTx]

Being a mastectomy BC survivor myself I signed. CRAZY STUFF!

[Stephanie]

Signed it - thank you for posting the link!