Coverage for Mastectomy Hospitalization Bill in Congress

January 24, 2007

Proposed bill in Congress

Mastectomy 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 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.

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family,

and on behalf of all women, THANKS.

January 25, 2007

I work in a hospital. My hospital sends home mastectomy patients within 24

hours after surgery, with drainage tubes still attached. As far as I am aware,

we've had no patients return with serious problems. But that's not the point.

This is standard procedure in hospitals now, and it just seems inhumane.

Especially for those women who live alone and have no one to care for them in

the first few days after surgery. I can't imagine it becoming an out-patient

procedure.

arnoldgore

cancercured ; cancercure ;

actiongreens ; alternative_medicine_forum

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 9:22 AM

Coverage for Mastectomy Hospitalization

Bill in Congress