Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act
Is the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act currently before Congress?
Claim: A bill known as the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act seeks to require insurance companies to cover a minimum
TRUE
Examples:
[Collected via e-mail, February 2002]
There’s a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum
PLEASE!!!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below and help women living with breast cancer get the care they need and deserve!!
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
[Collected via e-mail, 2004]
Legislation for all women.
Please send this to everyone in your address book. If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times. If you are receiving this it’s because I think you will take the
There’s a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum
It’s about eliminating the “drive-through mastectomy” where women are forced to go home hours after surgery against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.
Lifetime Television has put this bill on their web page with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House signed on. PLEASE!!!! Sign the petition by clicking on the web site below. You need
not give more than your name and zip code number.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/health/breast_mastectomy_pledge.html
Origins: In January 1997, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut sponsored
hours.”
This bill was never brought to the floor for a vote after its introduction to Congress. It was referred to various congressional committees, where it languished without action until it expired with the end of the
(a revised version of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007, which had been introduced
In March of 2009 Rep. DeLauro introduced the bill for the sixth time as
Although most efforts to see this bill passed urge supporters to affix their names to some type of petition, we believe the most effective course of action is for advocates of this legislation to contact their congressional representative(s) directly, by U.S. mail, telephone, fax, or
Additional information:
AMA letter in support of H.R. 536
Last updated: 19 May 2009