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Hi,

I personally (Sally on 5-17-09) looked this up on snopes.com, and it is true. Go to the Lifetime Television website and click through to the petition. This information has been on the web for a long time, and it has passed a few layers of approval already. It is waiting for final approval in the Senate before going to President Obama for signature.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/mastectomy.asp

This is a good thing!

Sally

Change ((Friends, this is Important..))

Please read this and think about adding your name to the petition. This could be any one of us–or someone we love–some day.

Proposed Mastectomy Law Change

(written by a surgeon);

I’ll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them

they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I

remember begging the doctors to keep these women in the hospital

longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the

insurance companies.

So there I sat with my patient giving them the instructions they

needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn’t grasp

half of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened

look spoke louder than the quiet ‘Thank you’ they muttered.

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 2 days after surgery.

This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now. It takes 2 seconds to do this

and is very important. Please take the time and do it really quick!

The Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill is 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.mylifetime.com/my-lifetime-commitment/breast-cancer/petition/breast-cancer-petition

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your 20 friends.

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