Could This Affect You Or Someone You Love?

News Type: Event — Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:23 PM EDT

As a 20 year member of the medical profession and a woman this really hit me in the gut! If you have a mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, or any other female relative this will affect you at some point. Please read the information below about a new proposed law in the house right now that could be the detriment of many many women in our society.

For those of you who don't know what a mastectomy involves a woman's breast (s) is removed and drains are placed under her arms or in her chest wall. There are not only physical changes but emotional and mental changes as well and those can be more of a stress than the surgical procedure its self. Now the insurance industry wants to tell women that they have to leave the hospital the same day as they undergo this tramatic procedure. Please read the information below and take action. If you love and care for the women in your life or you are a woman and concerned about the pending treatment of women who must indure this, please take action!

The Bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act Needs Your Support!
Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently re-introduced the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act in Congress. Thanks to its viewers, Lifetime has so far collected more than 23 million online petition signatures urging Congress to pass this critical legislation, which would end the practice of so-called "drive-through" mastectomies when women are forced out of the hospital only hours after invasive breast cancer surgery.

Help restore patient and consumer rights to breast cancer patients and their families:

Sign Lifetime's growing petition. Lifetime will continue to deliver the signatures to Congress and make your voice heard. Share your story. If you or someone you love has experienced a drive-through mastectomy, we want to know. Tell us in the official Breast Cancer Survivor community discussion. Call or write your members of Congress and ask them to support the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act. You may reach your member of Congress by calling the U.S. House of Representatives switchboard at 202-225-3121. To find your representative in Congress, go to: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

0 Votes
Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.

Published to:

Southern Bell's Column, All of Newsvine
Groups: Resources
Regions: none

What's this?

Who's leading the conversation?

This visualization below allows you to see the impact that each user has on the current conversation. The top row contains the group of users who have had the most impact, the 2nd row the group of users who have had the 2nd most impact (et cetera). Users with similar impact are grouped together, and the average score of the group is shown to the left of the group. The author of the article is also shown on the left, in their corresponding group. Each user's score is based on the number of comments the user has made plus the number of votes their comments have received. The scores are calculated relative one another, so while their absolute value is not particularly important, their relative difference does indicate a larger difference in impact on the conversation.

0.5

{"commentId":8492961,"authorDomain":"dhardy8207"}

Southern Bell

I've seen women loose their breast and go through hell with not only physical pain but emotional pain as well. We have got to start forcing the insurance industry to uphold policies that practice "good patient care" and promote preventive medicine as to not risk the lives of those vulnerable to life threatening diseases. They make billions in profits every year but yet are allowed to cut benefits or merely refuse to pay for certain treatments in order to save pocket more profits.

Please follow the link and sign this petition. For every woman that you've ever loved in your life, her life may now depend on it!

{"commentId":8492961,"threadId":"637165","contentId":"3062460","authorDomain":"dhardy8207"}

#1 - Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:19 PM EDT

{"canLink":false,"threadId":"637165","isPrivate":false}

SOUTHERN BELL

Backyard

Could This Affect You Or Someone You Love?

Published to:

FUN STUFF:

COMPANY STUFF:

LEGAL STUFF: