Breast Cancer Petition
Please consider signing a petition on Lifetime Television's website showing your support for the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act. The Act will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy instead of forcing them to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctors, still groggy from anasthesia, and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached! [read on...]
A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue. 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 two days after surgery.
This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently re-introduced the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act in Congress. Thanks to its viewers, Lifetime has so far collected more than 23 million online petition signatures urging Congress to pass this critical legislation, which would end the practice of so-called "drive-through" mastectomies when women are forced out of the hospital only hours after invasive breast cancer surgery.
It takes just a minute to sign the petition online here. It asks only for your name, email address, state and zip code. The site also provides the opportunity for you to share your own story if you'd like to. The Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill is important legislation for all women. Please consider forwarding the link to anyone you know who will take the minute to support women's well-being, and let your own voice be heard.
End "drive-through" mastectomies and claim the the care we all deserve.