Please read this article written by a doctor about the proposed changes in Hospital stays for Breast Cancer patients after a mastectomy.   

Proposed Mastectomy Law 
  Change 
 
 
  (written by a surgeon); 
 
 
  I'll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them 
  they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I 
  remember begging the doctors to keep these women in the hospital 
  for two days or longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the 
  insurance companies. 
 
 
  So there I sat with my patient giving them the instructions they needed 
  to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasp half of 
  what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke louder 
  than the quiet 'Thank you' they muttered. 
 
 
  A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove 
  cancerous breast cells/tissue. 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. Let's give 
  women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after 
  surgery. 
 
 
  This Mastectomy Bill is in Congress now. It takes 2 seconds to do this 
  and is very important. Please take the time and do it really quick! The 
  Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill is important 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're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the 
  30 seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to others you 
  know who will do the same. 
 
 
  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 
  'driv e-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. 
 
 
  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.mylifetime.com/community/my-lifetime-commitment/breast-cancer/petition/breast-cancer-petition