From one of my co-workers:
Mastectomy Bill in Congress- Please help (this is real!)


FOR YOUR INFORMATION. PLEASE READ AND ACT.

Subject: Mastectomy Bill in Congress

It takes 2 seconds to do this...It is very important...please take the time and do it really quick!!!

Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - 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 are receiving this it's because I think you will take the 30 seconds to go and 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 going to the web site below.
You need not give more than your name and zip code number.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family.

By My2cuties on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 11:30 am:

thanks.

By Trina~moderator on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 11:40 am:

This bill is no longer before Congress. More info:

Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act