A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE

I am not one who normally passes emails on...but this one is so very important, I decided to post it here. We must all take a stand against Insurance Companies and thier quest to save themselves a dime at the expense of our health. Please read and feel free to copy the article and send it along to your friends, family and email buddies.
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Please sign this bill and forward to anyone that you feel will sign it and pass it on.

From a nurse: I'll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell themthey had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast.I sat with my patients, giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasphalf of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened lookspoke louder than the quiet 'Thank You' they muttered.A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to removecancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had amastectomy,you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatientprocedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly in thehospital for 2 days after surgery.It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. Please take the time and do it really quick! Please send this to everyone in your address book.If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, thisis one of those times. If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the time to vote on this issue and send it on to others you knowwho will do the same.There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which willrequire Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the 'drive-thrumastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours aftersurgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anasthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a petitiondrive 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/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family and on behalf of all women, THANKS.