[NPInfo] Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act-Petition Please sign

[David Mittman]

> Also send this around!

>
> If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the 30  
> seconds to vote on this issue and send it on20to 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 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, state, and zip code.
>
> (http://www.lifetimetv.c o m/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php)
>
> This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and  
> family, and on behalf of all women, THANK YOU.
>