MASTECTOMY LEGISLATION - Please Read

[TheRide]

MASTECTOMY LEGISLATION

Important info for all women. Please forward this to everyone in your address book. This is a time when our voices and choices should be heard. This takes about 30 seconds 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 (H.R. 1886) 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 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 t! he web site below and help women with breast cancer get the care they need and deserve!! There is no cost or monetary pledge involved. You need not give more than your name and zip code number..

http://www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/bc/pledges/bc_mast_pledge.html

PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS

 

[wend]

Done!

This is important for everyone, male and female. The more insurance company bean counters are able to override doctors' orders, the less care we're all going to get.

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Raina]

Thanks for posting this-- I think it's awful that people get sent home as early as they do for a procedure of that magnitude. It's not in the best interest of the patient.

 

[boscoe wilson]

I think this is horrible. I will definately pass this information along. I can't believe they are trying to make a masectomy an 'out patien' procedure.

 

[boscoe wilson]

sorry...'out patient'

 

[Ceebs]

Signed. This makes my blood boil.

I wonder how many nights of hospital stay insurance companies would cover for testicle removal, or other male surgeries akin to mastectomies. Probably several without batting an eye.

 

[TheRide]

Thanks for posting this-- I think it's awful that people get sent home as early as they do for a procedure of that magnitude. It's not in the best interest of the patient.

I agree - Even though I'm a man, I feel that issues like this are very important and need to be brought to light. After reading the article, I was disgusted w/the treatment that women can receive on such a physically and mentally painful procedure. I thought that this was a great forum to post it in. I pray that none of you (or anyone) ever has to experience this.

TheRide

 

[TheRide]

Bump ^