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Take Action: Don't Restrict Access to Mammograms
Tell the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that new USPSTF recommendations must not restrict access to mammograms!
10,000 signatures sent on 12/14. Please continue to support this important cause by signing if you haven't already. Thank you!
Goal: 30,000
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Progress: 29,434
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
Mammograms reduce breast cancer deaths by an average of 15%. New recommendations against routine mammograms for women aged 40-49 have been issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Other major health care providers, including the American Cancer Society, disagree with the new recommendations.
Tell state insurance regulators not to allow insurance companies to restrict access to mammograms. Sign the petition & tell a friend today!
Dear National Association of Insurance Commissioners
President Roger A. Sevigny,
President-Elect Jane L. Cline,
& association members:
In spite of the recent controversy regarding whether routine mammograms should be given to women aged 40-49, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society, as well as countless other experts, agree that mammograms reduce the rate of death due to breast cancer by an average of fifteen percent.
We, your constituents, ask that you prevent recent USPSTF recommendations from being used to restrict access to mammograms for women. Your decisions and legislation will help decide whether women in each state get to choose the best preventive care options with the help of their doctors, or insurance companies make that choice for them by not covering appropriate care.
Please make your own recommendations wisely. Do not allow insurance companies to restrict access to life-saving mammograms. Let patient and doctor decide what preventive care is appropriate and necessary.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 15, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Early testing is VERY IMPORTANT, in our family three aunts had breast cancer, me and both of my sisters have had breast cancer and two of my daughters have had breast cancer. Because of early testing only one aunt (1) died. Please allow early testing !!!
May 15, 2013
Sandra Campillo
May 15, 2013
Peggy Krombholz
May 15, 2013
(Name not displayed)
I asked my OBGYN at age 32 for a mammogram - they said no b/c of my age and I wasn't feeling any lumps. I had a gut feeling. My regular doc finally referred me. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with stage 2 BC. Mammograms do SAVE LIVES!
May 15, 2013
(Name not displayed)
My annual mammogram detected my breast cancer Do NOT let insurance companies dictate how we manage our health!!!!
May 15, 2013
(Name not displayed)
My sister was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer last year at the age of 32. She had asked for a Mammogram the year prior, and was denied because of her young age.
May 15, 2013
Roseann Mohon
Because of a Mammogram we found my Breast Cancer Early! That was 16 years ago! Mammograms HELP SAVE LIVES! IT DID MINE! ♥
May 15, 2013
Andrea Hamor
May 14, 2013
Chantal Lambrix
May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
Joan Ashwell
May 14, 2013
Denise VanSickle
Because of my annual mammogram, my breast cancer was found very early, I was 44 years old. It is extremely important for women of all ages to have annual mammograms. It's absurd to think that because a person is aged 40-49 they will not get cancer.
May 14, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 14, 2013
Terri Haines
May 14, 2013
Philip Kremsreiter
May 14, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Do not restrict mammograms to women aged 40-49 - I have 3 friends who through mammograms found breast cancer at ages 41 and 44. They are alive because of preventive mammograms.
May 14, 2013
sue roberts
Please do sell or give my information to others.
May 14, 2013
Shelley McIntosh
May 14, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Mammograms save lives!
May 14, 2013
Maria Ortiz
Do not allow insurance companies to have the right to restrict mammograms
May 14, 2013
Francis Gallagher
May 13, 2013
Loraine Lindsey
May 13, 2013
Althea Pencek
May 13, 2013
Mary Hyland
May 13, 2013
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May 13, 2013
Gail Colby
May 13, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 13, 2013
Peggy Short
May 13, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 13, 2013
Cindy Rhodes
May 13, 2013
sandi crist
May 13, 2013
Terrie Harris
May 13, 2013
Beth Schmidt
May 12, 2013
Rachel Butler
May 12, 2013
Shirley Bergman
May 12, 2013
Barbara Tidwell
Mammograms so save lifes . If only my sister could of had one sooner maybe she would still be with us. Not only has my sisters life be cut short, two of my mother's sisters have passed with breast cancer, and one is still living thanks to a mammogram.
May 12, 2013
Jennifer Kelly
May 12, 2013
Ralph Bellon
May 12, 2013
Claire Leyonmark
I was 47 years old when my mammogram showed metastatic breast cancer. Do not deny women & men their mammograms. I would be DEAD!
May 12, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 12, 2013
Muriel Laurent
May 11, 2013
Shirlee Ann Christopher
May 11, 2013
nia vafopoulos
May 11, 2013
laurie christmas-veglia
May 11, 2013
Kari Proefrock
May 11, 2013
Tracey Smallwood
May 11, 2013
Vincent Carney
May 11, 2013
(Name not displayed)
I know several women UNDER the age of 40 who developed breast cancer. Younger women should not be denied this life-saving tool.
May 11, 2013
Teresa Adams
May 11, 2013
Robert Romberg
