[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 156 (Sunday, September 28, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              BREAST CANCER PATIENT PROTECTION ACT OF 2008

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                               speech of

                          HON. JOHN D. DINGELL

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 23, 2008

  Mr. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, H.R. 758, the ``Breast Cancer Patient 
Protection Act'', would require that insurance companies cover a stay 
of at least 48 hours in the hospital for women undergoing mastectomy 
and other procedures when the physician, in consultation with the 
patient, deem them to be medically necessary.
  This section of the bill was largely written to parallel section 2704 
of the Public Health Service Act, Standards Relating to Benefits for 
Mothers and Newborns, which prevents drive through deliveries. Certain 
superfluous and unnecessary provisions, however, were deleted from H.R. 
758 as reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 
23, 2008, because the protections already exist in law.




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