http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_688.html#73254 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; we cannot allow another one to pass by with this bill languishing in committee. I am a Physical Therapist who sees breast cancer and post-mastectomy patients for education and treatment of complications. I urge everyone to write to your Senators to impress upon them the need for physicians, not insurance companies, to decide on the length of stay after surgery. They pay more attention to letters than e-mails. Also, write to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to get the bill out of committee! And write to tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to urge the U.S. Senate to pass the Breast Cancer Protection Act of 2009! If you are not a letter writer, be bold enough to telephone them. If you get through, tell them personally! If you get a busy signal, try again, and pray that it means that persons like you are overloading the lines! I will!... 73254@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:42:45 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_688.html#60235 I intent to do everything I can to support this bill and to encourage my representatives in Congress to support it. I have a personal interest in this matter. A friend of mine had a mastectomy and I brought her home from the hospital with a drain in her chest. Her college-age son cared for her, changed her dressings and comforted her. Would our legislators and health insurance executives like to see their wives and daughters treated like this? I think not. This legislation has been submitted for passage year after year since 1997. Last year it finally passed the House of Reps, but the Senate FAILED to vote on it before the session ended. This is SHAMEFUL! I hope Americans everywhere will let their voices be heard on this issue. When health insurance companies are not willing to act on their own in the best interest of patients, they must be required to do so by law.... 60235@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:03:55 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_688.html#58703 As a 7 year breast cancer survivor who had a lumpectomy,mastectomy & reconstructive surgeries, I support this bill.... 58703@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 12 May 2009 15:17:43 EDT