Let’s give women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for two days after breast surgery. It takes two seconds to make a difference. And it is very important. Please take the time and do it now.
If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. And yet U.S. insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure.
But 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 story on its Web page with a petition drive to show your support. Last year more than half the U.S. House of Representatives signed on. This takes about two seconds. Please sign the petition by clicking on the link below. You need not give more than your name and ZIP code number.
Please pass this on to your friends and family and, on behalf of all American 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 reading this, it’s because I think you will take the 30 seconds to vote on this issue and bring it to the attention of others you know who will do the same.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
[Submitted by Ensenada Jim]
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