MGordon
03-01-2007, 11:33 PM
Mastectomy Hospital Bill in Congress
As most, if not all of you know, after a mastectomy there is a lot of discomfort and pain. 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.
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. It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important ... please take the time and do it really quick!
PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number. Email address is NOT required.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html (http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html)
This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS
As most, if not all of you know, after a mastectomy there is a lot of discomfort and pain. 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.
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. It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important ... please take the time and do it really quick!
PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number. Email address is NOT required.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html (http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html)
This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS