[MR] FW: Important Legislation: Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill

[Jeanne]

Not limited to women!


Subject:    FW: Important Legislation: Breast Cancer Hospitalization
>Bill
>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 and help
>women living with breast cancer get the care they need and deserve!!
>There
>is no cost or monetary pledge involved. You need not give more than your
>
>name and zip code number.
>http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html 
>This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS
>