Pls. Sign and Rec. Petition To End Drive-Through Mastectomies! And thank you!

[babylonsister]

Mastectomy Bill in Congress
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all women.

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. 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.
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, zip code and email address.

Updated link added:
http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

[havocmom]

1. Thanks for posting! Wow, this is really important. It is NOT minor surgery!

People need to have enough time to make sure they come completely out of the drugs they give for the surgery and time to make sure they are stable.

It's not like getting a wart removed, for cryin out loud! The insurance companies need to provide the care people pay for!

P.S. Found it, no need to send me a link ;)

[kittykitty]

2. I just get a 404 Error. This bill has languished in committee in congress for the past

5 congresses. No doubt Rose De Lauro (sp) will introduce it again. I couldn't find the petition on the Lifetime site.

[babylonsister]

4. I fixed it, I hope. nt

[undergroundpanther]

3. For cancer it makes sense

For trans-gender male chest reconstruction it does not, unless the state decides to quit pretending trans-gender is all in the head, and helps fund trans surgery. I say this because there is no way in hell I could afford the surgery AND pay for 48 hours inpatient.I have waited for this surgery for years,and drive by male chest reconstruction is all I can afford. I hope the bill passes after I get my "drive by".This bill will help women with cancer but for trans-men it will make their surgery farther out of reach.What seems good for some harms others when health care is in the hands of profit makers and religionists.

[babylonsister]

5. I'm sorry, undergroundpanther, but your desire to get

reconstructed has no merit when women are dying from an honest-to-god disease. Cancer is a bit different then your desire for surgery. And I'm speaking as someone who's been there, done that.

[undergroundpanther]

19. Transgendered condituion is an honest to god disease hun.

I will take you comment as one made in ignorance.As insulting as you were to me.

Trans-gender is a very emotionally tormenting condition.I know some people still believe it's all in my head. But it is not. Alot of trans-people die from the conflict or they get killed by assholes when they try to pass and can't quite do it.


I have tried to cope many ways with this female body in conflict but I cannot. I have felt such internal pain over being transgendered have tried to kill myself, I have thought many times of cutting these boobs off of myself with a knife and throwing the damn things in a garbage disposal so they would not be reattached.. YOu do not understand the pain trans-people go through all their lives.Alot of trans-people go overseas to hack surgeons rather than live their lives in the wrong body forever. This is not an "elective" procedure for me,it will save my life.


I know it's hard for people who are content with their birth gender to get their minds wrapped around how it feels being transgendered.But that comfort you have with your own gender blinds you with ignorance about how life threatening being transgendered and having to"lump it" in the wrong body is for trans-people,and that blindness is what stands in the way of trans-people getting the real help that will save their lives they need just as legitimately as a cancer patient needs treatment for cancer.

Yeah I know cancer is bad I have seen it kill my father and my aunt. Yet I still wished for breast cancer so bad the surgeons have to cut these boobs off me. Many many times.

Please understand when you focus your efforts to push changes one way, yes it can help whom you are focusing on, but every"solution" creates a burden for others if those others are devalued. Your reply was insulting and ignorant. But I'm letting it slide because maybe you are not aware of trans-gender issues. If I had to pay for a two day impatient stay I might as well kill myself now rather than live like this for the days and days until my death.. And that is the truth.The Transgender, Transsexual Suicide rate is 31%. Over 50% of us have had one suicide attempt by age 20.
That is a very high rate.

Many trans-men may have to die because of a broad solution that helps breast cancer victims also destroys the hope of many trans-people who save up FOR YEARS to get the help they require. This is because ignorant people who are comfortable in their gender tend to trivialize the pain of being transgender..I hope this helped you understand the situation I and many others are in more deeply.Here are some links I suggest you educate yourself.
http://www.transgenderzone.com/features/suicide.htm
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/transgender.htm

And lastly what of women with breast cancer but have no insurance? A drive by mastectomy might save their life,because paying for a hospital stay and a mastectomy might make them put off treatment due to cost. Ever think of that? My cat had cancer I was giving him liquid prednisone it made him loopy. He bit me,on my hand when I tried to open his mouth to give him medicine with a syringe. But I put off getting professional help for my hand because of cost . I put it off until it hurt so bad I was forced to drag my ass to a patient first,And The Doctor there sent me right to the ER I had to pay for a two day hospital stay to pump me with antibiotics and save my hand. It cost a HELL of alot.


Thankfully we were selling our house, a big chunk of the leftover money paid off the bill that bite incurred , the rest went to taxes. If I had that bill still unpaid it would not be paid off ever because I cannot afford it. I can't pay a big bill without running into a large sum like I did from selling the house..I don't think every female with cancer is immune to cost considerations of how much it costs to stay inpatient at a hospital that charges for everything the most they can get away with..

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions...

[slipslidingaway]

6. Thanks, link here and maybe you can still edit.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

[babylonsister]

7. I did, and thank you so much! nt

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Thanks for giving us the chance to sign this. K&R

[Breeze54]

9. Signed, shared, kicked and recommended!

Thank You for posting this and bringing it to all of our attention!




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[Breeze54]

10. Please Recommend this post, people!!

It's a great cause!! Help women in need!

[babylonsister]

11. Thank you for your help, Breeze54! nt

[Breeze54]

12. Anytime for a good cause!

;)

:kick:

[silverojo]

13. Signed, K&R'ed! n/t

[pecwae]

14. Fortunately, my ins. co. gave me the option

of going home right after my bil. mast. or staying up to 2 nights in hospital. I stayed 1 night and was glad I did since oral pain relief was inadequate. The only IV/IM narcotic I'm not allergic to is Dilaudid.

I signed. All women should be entitled to the choice I was given!

[havocmom]

15. Kick

Good morning evilDuers. Please consider signing the petition and keeping this kicked today.

[etherealtruth]

16. This is important

Thanks for posting ....let this serve as a kick

[EFerrari]

17. This should be #`10

:kick:

[Sydnie]

18. Done k&R! n/t