Drive-Through Mastectomies!!!

wendybdh

wendybdh

Cathlete
I read this and I thought it was a joke! Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an OUTPATIENT procedure!!x(

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.

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/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html

This takes about 2 seconds.

Thanks everyone - I just thought this is something that is sooo important so if you can please pass it on.
 
Thanks for making us aware of this! It was very simple to do and there was an informative article prior to the place for your signature.
 
and getting kicked out of the hospital a day after a baby was rough, now they want to do this to us. Wonderful. Thank you for the information!
 
I have to say this almost makes me sick. I just had my sons tonsils removed last Tuesday and they allowed him to "just" barely wake up and throw up the blood in his stomach and off we went to drive home. He couldn't walk to the car as the anesthetic was still with him, we held him up. We had a 40 minute trip home. He layed down in the reclining seat and threw up several more times (more blood from his stomach), we carried him in and put him in bed. We kept ice packs on his neck and hoped that he was doing fine. I had a hard time believing that this is how it should be handled, and this was just a tonsillectomy. I can't even imagine doing this to a mastectomy patient, physically as well as emotionally.

Thanks for posting this, I'll go check out your site.

Briee
 
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