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Me thinks this one be worth the time it takes to port and mark your X. Might be ye will also.

Steven St'ar

Mastectomy Hospital 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

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.

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.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_ma...omy_pledge.html