Mastectomy Bill in Congress NOW..PLEASE Sign Petition!

indimuse

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Tue Jun-09-09 11:00 AM
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Mastectomy Bill in Congress NOW..PLEASE Sign Petition!

This email was sent to me from my daughter. She has mailed it to all her friends and co-worker,etc. I don't know anybody with Breast Cancer...but I do know people with many other types.Our Health care system is a DISGRACE! This is ONE prime example!! It is WAY past time to take PROFIT out of our Health Care! Please help.

Subject: Proposed Mastectomy Law Change

Proposed Mastectomy Law Change
(written by a surgeon);

I'll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them they
had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember
begging the doctors to keep these women in the hospital longer, only to hear
that they would, but their hands were tied by the insurance companies.

So there I sat with my patient giving them the instructions they needed to
take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasp half of what I
was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke 0D louder
than the quiet 'Thank you' they muttered.

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 wo men the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days
after surgery.

This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now. It takes 2 seconds to do this and
is very important. Please take the time and do it really quick! The Breast
Cancer Hospitalization Bill is 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 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 not
give more than your name, e-mail, state and zip code number.

http://www.mylifetime.com/community/my-lifetime-commitment/breast-cancer
/petition/breast-cancer-petition
<http://www.mylifetime.com/community/my-lifetime-commitment/breast-cance
r/petition/breast-cancer-petition>

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your 20 friends.

Thank you.