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If you know anyone who has had a mastectomy, you may know that there is a
lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to
make mastectomies an outpatient procedure.<br><br>
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. 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.<br><br>
Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a petition
drive to show support. Last year over half the House signed on.
Please, sign the petition by clicking on the web site below.<br>
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<a href="http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html">
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html</a><br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2>This takes about 10 seconds. Please pass
this on to your friends and family, and on behalf of all women.
Thanks.</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2><br>
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"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one
today."<br>
Bill Murray as Phil Connors<br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Design Media Artist - Futurist
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273">
Planetary Collegium </a>
<dd>Proactionary Principle Core Group,
<a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy
</a><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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