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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: 29,411
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 14, 2013
Shelley McIntosh
May 14, 2013
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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
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May 13, 2013
Peggy Short
May 13, 2013
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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
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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
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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
May 11, 2013
(Name not displayed)
ANYTHING & EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE TO DETECT CANCER, MUST BE ACCEPTED & ALLOWED UNLESS IT IS HARMFUL TO THE PATIENT.
May 11, 2013
Audrey Stapleford
Cancer does not discriminate. Neither should any insurance company when it comes to preventing it. It's far less expensive to prevent it than it is to pay for treating it. Insurance companies can't be that stupid.
May 11, 2013
Tracy Starkey
No one has the right to take away a life saving device. Taking away mammograms for women in that age range can mean a death sentence for some. Do not take away one of the best tools for detecting breast cancer.
May 10, 2013
PAULA RURY
EVERY WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT THE AGE HAS A HUMAN RIGHT FOR PREVENTIVE CARE! HOW DARE ANYONE ONE TO TRY TO MAKE THESE CHOICES FOR US! "WOMEN, LETS UNITE FOR EACH OTHER"
May 10, 2013
Jane McEldowney
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Jeanette Jacobs-Cox
May 10, 2013
Sylvia Cooper
Please think of the health and well being of all women.
Mammograms save lives regardless of the age.
May 10, 2013
(Name not displayed)
We have made such progress. Please do not restrict access to mammograms. I lost a dear friend at age 42 to breast cancer. Early detection is the key to survival.
May 10, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Do NOT let insurance companies restrict mammograms! I am a survivor and want my 23 year old daughter to be able to get them regularly!
May 10, 2013
Ellen Levin
May 10, 2013
Jennifer McCauley
To restrict mammograms based on age is determining that lives of a certain age are not worth saving. Today I'm a survivor because of a mammogram at age 41. Other women deserve this chance too. Save lives, not dollars.
May 10, 2013
Linda Riggi
I was diagnosed at 41 because of a mammogram I am still alive today.. age has nothing to do with it...
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Jacqueline Vizard
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Garuda Love
