Mastectomy Hospital Bill in Congress
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>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.
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> Mastectomy Bill in Congress
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> It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very
>important...please take the time and do it really quick!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web pag e
>with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the
>House signed on.
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> PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below.
>You need not give more than your name and zip code number.
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>http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
>/www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html>
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> This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your
>friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS.
