( posted in P&R also ...having Mod's permission to cross post)



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 are receiving this it's because I think you will take the

30 seconds to go and 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 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.



http://www.lifetimetv.com...ledge.html



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

family. THANKS!




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[Edited 3/15/06 13:52pm]

The link didn't work, Mach.

CarrieMpls said:

thanks for sharing this with us mach...

i've made an exception to keep both threads up because this is an important issue for Mach, myself and for women in general.

feel free to orgnote me if you would like to discuss my reasonings..

thanks!!

sos

Try this one please ...

http://www.lifetimetv.com...ledge.html

Mach said:

This one worked.

Thanks!!

CarrieMpls said:

cool...i think i fixed the one in the main thread too

Who is Mastectomy Bill ???

it was 23 years ago but i am sure my mother was in the hospital for at least five days after her mastectomy...
and still in a great deal of pain when she got home

Done!

done

Thank you

IrresistibleB1tch said:

how can we not ?

signed.

I can't imagine if they would have sent my grandma home right away Hospitals are getting rediculous about kicking people out early...and they cahrge you through the nose for the stay so it's not like they aren't making money!