Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act

This featured post is to link to Thursday's 'Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act'post. (Click HEREto view)

Briefly:

There's a bill called the BreastCancer Patient Protection Act whichwill require Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay forpatients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the 'drive-throughmastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery,against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimeswith drainage tubes still attached.

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Comments

[Zephster]

I think that this legislation didn't go through. However, although I am concerned about women's issues, I didn't sign this petition when it was requested that I do so. Why? Because I am concerned about the financial burden a mandatory 48 hour hospital stay would have on women who don't have insurance. I also am not sure that a mandatory two day stay in a hospital is medically indicated in every case, and might increase a woman's chances of contracting a hospital-associated infection.