H.R. 1691 Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009

[blenderwench]

As many of you can attest to, I am one of the people who are not too keen on random email fwds and ususally delete them without opening.  If I do see one and send it in, it is something that I feel strongly is not to be missed.

The information below is one of those situations.  Individually, our voice may not be heard.  But combined, we can create a

Comments

[sweetpea86]

Signed and commented.
Thanks, Vicki.

fantastic!

[blenderwench]

No problemo. I just looked up my local district's rep and he is a co-sponsor on the bill. YAY TEAM! (still signed tho)

[isabelladangelo]

Just curious: Would it include all mastectomy (and mastectomy like) surgeries or only those with confirmed breast cancer? I'll go and check out the bill but something seems off about this.

[blenderwench]

I had the same question

[isabelladangelo]

They can. :-) I had breast reduction surgery (which is one of the many reasons I'm curious. Would it have covered me as well?) and got sent home the same day as the surgery. I ended up with a bad bacterial infection and they had to re-stitch my surgical cuts two times before they even realized that it was bacterial infection. Finally, they gave me anti-biotics which healed the cuts but left scaring. If I had stayed for 48 hours, they might have caught all of this and the scarring wouldn't have been as bad... Of course, if the doctor had done is job and given me a low level anti-biotic before surgery, it also would have prevented this nonsense.

[blenderwench]

Wow. I can't believe they send women home so early. See? Although the circumstances are a little different, the bottom line is the same - releasing patients early from major surgery is dangerous.