Monday, July 14, 2008

As a cancer survivor I ask you to consider signing this petition.

The insurance companies are trying to make a mastectomy an outpatient surgery.

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.

Thank you!

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