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H.R. 758, The Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007
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Silly Season on Capitol Hill
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Catherine Simon
Please do not let this bill languish in committee. I am respetfully requesting that it be brought up for thorough discussion and brought to the floor. Thank you.
Concerned
This bill needs to be passed now. Congress, let us know you can do something worthwhile besides earmarks and worhtless rebate checks that will not even help us!
Clurie Bennis
Surely this is a medical issue of great importance to women in their prime, and their families, NOT a political issue, and not one to be decided by commercial interests, but by Health and Welfare? Why not quickly?
Elizabeth L. Waller
I respectfully request that this bill be passed now. Please do not allow it to languish in committee again. Too many women must endure additional suffering. They have suffered enough.
Brenda McWhorter
I request that this bill be passed
now.These are your daughters mothers, wives,friends,girl friends,grandmothers that are calling out for your protection.
Ann Hall
Please pass this bill so that women, and their families, who are already traumatized by cancer, can receive a few inpatient days of professional healthcare prior to going back to their lives.
Pushing 60
Please EXPEDITE the passage of this bill in the interest of your mother, your wife (or yourself), your daughter(s)and all females requiring mastectomies. Why it has already taken this long is a disgrace to the aforementioned ladies in your life--it's a small gesture, but a worthwhile one. Thank you for your consideration.
Ann F. Schatzle
Please realize that this bill covers all insured Americans, not just women. Men can and do have breast cancer, as well. As a breast cancer survivor, I urge you to pass this bill. I had little assistance after my surgery. No one should have to endure that.
Marti Swanson
Please expedite the passage of this bill. Help to alleviate the suffering of your sisters, wives, daughters and mothers. Also, do not forget that men suffer from breast cancer, too. Please act quickly.
Sukie Knight
I know all about "bills never coming out of committee." Who serves on this committee where this bill is languishing now for nearly 19 months-time for any woman to create, incubate and deliver two children. If all the folks on the committee holding this bill hostage, thought of their mothers anbd sisters and grams and aunts and lady teachers, and listened and voted, then all of the 200,000 women who will get diagnosed with breast cancer this year, might have a chance at some rest and quality care IN A HOSPITAL while they ar healing from breast cancer surgery. All the 40,000 women WHOW WILL DIE THIS YEAR FROM BREAST CANCER MIGHT AT LEAST HAVE SOME COMFORT FOR A FEW DAYS FOLLOWING THIS PAINFUL SURGERY. For all and anyone, women and men reading this please get involved, write call email fax your congresspeople to get this bill out of committee now. And why is there only the name of ONE(1) woman on this bill in the house, Joann Davis who sponsored it. Where Are the rest of the women?
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this system is such a joke, when you are limited to 1000 words. Who counts when they type in an "open" window?
If you want only 1000 words then limit the size of the window to accommodate only 100 words and what is the with the secret word to enter the mail once it is written. Is this the CIA of Bush or what.
What about the Men
Women get all the statutory protections. What about the men? Nearly 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer (higher rate than women and breast cancer) and 2,000,000 men live with the disease. According to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, "Although the hospitalization rate for prostate cancer decreased by nearly 30 percent between 1997 and 2004, the use of an open prostatectomy during inpatient hospitalization remained relatively stable. However, the rate of inpatient TURPs performed during this period declined by about 44 percent, decreasing from 117.1 inpatient procedures per 100,000 males in 1997 to 65.8 inpatient procedures per 100,000 males in 2004. This decrease was especially marked between 2001 and 2004, during which time a decrease of about 30 percent was noted."
Yet no statutory protection for men. No 3 day walks. No big pink ribbons. Hmmmmmm. Where's your concern there. Sounds like discrimination to me.