krazyaboutkatz
08-13-2003, 08:56 PM
Hi everyone. I just received this e-mail from a friend and felt it was important enough to share with you. Please go to this website and sign this petition. My mother had breast cancer and I know what she had to go through. Thanks.
MASTECTOMY LEGISLATION
>
> Important info for all women. Please forward this to everyone in your
> address book. This is a time when our voices and choices should be
> heard.
>
> This takes about 30 seconds 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 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 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/reallife/bc/pledges/bc_mast_pledge.html
>
>
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS
MASTECTOMY LEGISLATION
>
> Important info for all women. Please forward this to everyone in your
> address book. This is a time when our voices and choices should be
> heard.
>
> This takes about 30 seconds 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 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 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/reallife/bc/pledges/bc_mast_pledge.html
>
>
> PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS