Mastectomy Bill in Congress
 

I just got this in a forward and thought this might be a good place to rally up some signatures:

If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you know there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure. There is a pending 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 will eliminate the "drive-through-mastectomy" where women are forced to go home hours after surgery against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached. We are asking that women be given the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.


It takes only a few seconds to register your concern on this important issue ...please take the time to read this and register your vote on the bill.


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.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/bre...my_pledge.html

thank you fullertongreek for posting this important link. it took me less than 30 seconds. i hope all gcer's will sign.

Just signed it.

You'd be much more effective contacting your congressman directly re: HR 1849- internet petitions don't hold much sway.

just signed it

I signed it, and I hope it helps. I had a lumpectomy two years ago (I was 19, it was benign but growing...it runs in my family), and just that was scary enough.

Signed!

Signed it.

Count Me in!:)

Signed it.

I just got back from dinner with a sister I hadn't seen in a while. It turns out that another sister felt a lump, and her gynecologist said it was just a cyst. She persisted, and found that she not only had a lump, but she had thirteen lumps in her lymph gland! She is recovering from a double radical mastectomy; she asked to have her second breast removed, and when they did it, there was cancer found in there, too. She got to stay in the hospital overnight, then started chemo two days later! I am still stunned by the news - but thrilled that she is doing well, and is keeping in good spirits!

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