President Bill Clinton is attempting to get a similar law through the Republican Congress. He got it through for hospital stays after birth. The laws would also require the insurance companies to pay for reconstructive surgery as a mastectomy. Many insurance companies, to save a few bucks, are claiming such reconstructive surgery is elective, not a health requirement. Yeah, you woman - you.
Heart attacks kill more women than breast cancer.
Strokes are right up there too. And though the incidence rate of stroke appears to be greater in men, women may tend to have more severe strokes or receive less aggressive treatment for the condition. As long as we're on the subject of women being neglected by the health care system, let's stop off at University of Rochester medical school which had been warned about deficiencies in its human research procedures. The university says the procedural deficiencies that received warnings from the FDA and now from the NIH had nothing to with Hoi Yan Wan who died from an anesthetic overdose. Hoi Yan Wan had been given FOUR times the recommended dose of lidocaine during a bronchoscopy performed as part of a study of lung cells.