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Help End "Drive-Through" Mastectomies

Tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to urge the U.S. Senate to pass the Breast Cancer Protection Act of 2009

Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site

 

The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009 (S.688) ensures that consultation between the doctor and the patient, rather than arbitrary insurance limitations, determines how long a patient remains in the hospital after a mastectomy for successful recovery. Take action to end "drive-through" mastectomies today -- ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to urge the Senate to pass this important legislation. Sign the petition below and tell a friend.

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Dear Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,

I am writing to urge you to quickly and decisively end the practice of "drive-through" mastectomies by urging the Senate to pass the bi-partisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009(S.688). It is time to ensure that decisions about breast cancer treatment and recovery are made by medical professionals and their patients, not by the impersonal and inappropriate monetary interests of large insurance companies.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women today; one in eight women will be diagnosed in their lifetimes. It is difficult enough for these women to bear the diagnosis and treatment of this frightening disease. Don't let insurance companies handle treatment like an assembly line, forcing patients out of the hospital before they are physically and psychologically prepared for it.

Please do the right thing to end these unethical insurance practices and stop "drive-through" mastectomies forever -- help pass the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009.