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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!

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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is a group of elected or appointed state regulators who work to fairly determine what procedures insurance companies are required by law to cover. Regulation of health insurance coverage, including coverage of preventive care like mammograms, occurs primarily at the state level.

The fierce debate currently going on regarding the new USPSTF recommendations against mammograms for women aged 40-49 only serves to emphasize the fact that the NAIC must use its powers to protect the public interest. The association must not use these new recommendations as an excuse to allow insurance companies to restrict preventive care for women under the age of 50, or over the age of 74.

All women should have access to preventive care, including mammograms. Whether and when to have a mammogram should be a personal decision, informed by the advice of a woman's own doctor and her personal and family medical history. But if insurance does not cover the cost of the mammogram, prohibitive costs will prevent many women from being able to make that decision based on her medical needs.

Don't let insurance companies restrict access to mammograms for women under 50. Sign the petition and tell a friend today.

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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,

Signatures

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Do Not restrict Mammograms from Insurance, that would just be crazy!

Feb 9, 2010 Pamela Lowman

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) I am a 43 year old who had a mastectomy in September '09. My cancer was caught on a mammogram!!! PLEASE do not make these changes!!!!

Feb 9, 2010 Jessica Briggs

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 Elizabeth Dickson

Feb 9, 2010 Patty Mendoza

Feb 9, 2010 Eleanore Horning

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Mother and sister had breast cancer. We need to be screened early!!!

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) All women should have the right to clean health.

Feb 9, 2010 Barb Boyer The new recommendations do not make sense. There is no age limit to getting breast cancer. the earlier found the better chance for survival.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) A family friend, my great-aunt and my grandmother have all had breast cancer.

Feb 9, 2010 lisa huffman

Feb 9, 2010 Sandra Pelletier Mammography at 45 (w/minimal family history) found high grade DCIS undetectable 3 years before. I was lucky. A 40yo friend found a lump by self exam her cancer is grade 3; her prognosis is poor. Access to screening is critical.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 ileana burnett

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) My daughter and my best friend also had breast cancer

Feb 9, 2010 Susan Paul

Feb 9, 2010 Sharon Wells

Feb 9, 2010 Beverly Moennig Early detection is the key to recovery. This shouldn't be taken away.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Mammograms are essential to detect early signs of breast cancer.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 Bobbie Blankenship

Feb 9, 2010 cindi hicks

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Do not allow insurance companies to restrict mamograms - how shameful if they do!

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Mammograms are crucial in the detection of breast cancer. My mother is a three time survivor of breast cancer.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 gerg beutler

Feb 9, 2010 Shawna Payne Something as great as being anle to have a mammogram, i dont believe it should be able to be restricted!

Feb 9, 2010 Diane Gellert

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) Yearly mammograms are necessary as early detection is a major factor in survival. I'm a survivor and am so due to yearly mammograms and early detection

Feb 9, 2010 Shelly Cunningham

Feb 9, 2010 V V

Feb 9, 2010 Charlene Scuderi

Feb 9, 2010 Marcia Vickers

Feb 9, 2010 Sigrid Treat

Feb 9, 2010 Tracy Swope my sisters got breast cancer when they were 28 and 30. It was caought early because they got mammograms.

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed) My Mom just had a massectomy!

Feb 9, 2010 (Name not displayed)

Feb 9, 2010 Eileen Fabian

Feb 9, 2010 Tracy Osborne

Feb 9, 2010 teresa trask