A news conference to celebrate the Senate's passage of bills that hep to detect breast cancer at its earliest stages was held next to the Capitol fountain spraying pink-dyed water in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Nearly a dozen Pennsylvania senators gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to celebrate their passage of two breast cancer screening bills as they stood next to the fountain where pink-dyed water spewed in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Oct. 20, 2022 Jan Murphy |[email protected] aimed at helping Pennsylvanians detect breast cancer earlier and removing cost as a barrier to getting breast cancer screenings advanced in the state Senate on Wednesday.
“This legislation is incredibly important to women and their families all across the state,” said Pat Halpin-Murphy, president and founder of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, at the news conference flanked by a bipartisan group of senators. “It will be really a great leap forward for women in the state.”
This latest bill requires insurers to provide those screenings at no cost, meaning no co-pay and no deductible, as well as requires them to cover an additional MRI or ultrasound breast screening per year for women in high-risk categories. Plus, it saves insurance companies money because early diagnosis of breast cancer is much more treatable and effective, she said.
Individuals with a BRCA mutation are shown to have a genetic predisposition to developing breast, ovarian or prostate cancer and can monitor their health more closely, Ward said. She paid $6,000 out of her pocket to have the test only to find out the results were inconclusive because the person filling out the paperwork didn’t get her full family history, she said. So now she has to have it done again.
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