Stop drive through masectomy's!!!!!! Help please!!!

I recieved this via an email...it touched my heart..I hope it touches yours as well. It takes less than 20 seconds to fill in your name and zipcode and it will help thousands!!! Thank you!~ Lisa K Please do not ignore this - I beg you!    It took me less than a few seconds.

From a nurse: 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 patients, 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. It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. Please take the time and do it really quick! 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 t h e 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.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS.

  

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I signed it. I can't imagine having a mastectomy as an OP procedure!

I signed it.  My sister had a double mastectomy on July 30th.  Insurance "allowed" 24 hours in the hospital.  She has since been in twice for staff infections.  Additional surgeries, intense pain, emotional suffering and a long healing process and more time off work, which she worries about.  If the insurance company had allowed more time in the hospital for care and recovery I am sure all could have been prevented. We need to take action to stop the insanity of these companies.  They don't mind charging outrageous premiums and upping them every year, but they sure don't want to pay out anything.  Higher salaries for upper management and bigger showier buildings.

Supporters should also consider contacting their elected representatives directly to make their opinions known.  Although online petitions like this are easy and popular, experience has shown they alone rarely get the job done.  Use the links below to get the address of your representatives, and send them a brief letter asking them to support the "Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 (S. 459/H.R.758)." http://www.house.gov/writerep/ http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

I have signed the petition and thank you for bringing it to my attention. This is a dramatic change for women who have had to endure it. They should have a right to recover as an inpatient until they can safely go home.