please pass this on....

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 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 and zip code number.

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.

Posted by Miriam V.