I received this information this AM and thought I'd pass it along to as many as possible... and what better place than here. 
I visited the Library of Congress and this is what I discovered:
Latest Major Action: 5/19/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations
Latest Major Action: 9/30/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Well, here is the email, I hope no minds that I posted this:
Everyone needs to sign this...
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill? Important legislation for all
women.
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 clicking on the web site below. You
need not give more than your name and zip code number.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/bc/pledges/bc_mast_pledge.html
This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS
I visited the Library of Congress and this is what I discovered:Latest Major Action: 5/19/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations
Latest Major Action: 9/30/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Well, here is the email, I hope no minds that I posted this:
Everyone needs to sign this...
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill? Important legislation for all
women.
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 clicking on the web site below. You
need not give more than your name and zip code number.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/bc/pledges/bc_mast_pledge.html
This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THANKS