Okay, so there I am, checking my email, and this is what I found. My mother sent it to me so I could pass it on. Below this brief article is a link to a website where you can speak for every woman in America. I signed it, as did my mother in law, who is a breast cancer survivor. Please read it and tell everyone you know about this.

They want to pass a law that says a mastectomy should be an outpatient procedure. That is absolutely CRIMINAL! These frickin' insurance companies are so unbelievable!!!!!

You can pay your bill every frickin month without failure so you're covered....but don't you DARE need it or you'll be dropped, or your rates will go up (in the case of auto ins.). So what are we paying for, huh? The luxury of being able to JUST SAY we have insurance?

Please visit the link below and PLEASE sign it, and tell everyone to as well.

I feel very strongly about this.

Thanks
Cindy

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, email address and zip code number.

http://www.mylifetime.com/community/my-lifetime-commitment/breast-cancer/petition/breast-cancer-petition">Breast Cancer Petition

A Writers Mind Kathy Blaylock

....This just goes to show, when it comes to our health women don't have any respect. what next, are they going to say take out the brain tumor and send them home to recover on their own. You can bet something like this wouldn't happen to a man. BTW Congress, men do get breast cancer too, how could anyone even considering allowing such a barbaric thing to be done to women . Do people in insurance Companines have mothers? Kathy....   Posted by A Writers Mind on July 18, 2009 - Saturday - 11:01 AM [Reply to this]