Boston - Desperate Housewives star actress Marcia Cross has come out and stated that she is in full support of a new breast cancer bill.
Marcia Cross plays the character Bree Van de Kamp on the hit ABC sitcom, but her ego on TV is nothing like the real life person. She was seen on Wednesday lobbying to pass a new breast cancer bill.
She wants Congress to pass the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 and prevent “drive-by mastectomies.”
The new bill put forth to Congress would require insurance companies to cover up to a 48-hour stay for women who have a mastectomy and are deemed to warrant a night stay at the hospital by a doctor.
Cross stated “One in eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. I’ve seen it up close and personally. I’m sorry to say I don’t have a friend, but friends who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, and when I first heard about drive-by mastectomies I was shocked.”