    The Medicare plan modernizes Medicare, increases the life of the trust fund to 10 years, and provides support for respite care for the many families with loved ones afflicted with Alzheimer's. And for the first time, it would fully pay for annual minor grounds. Just as we ended drive-through deliveries of babies last year, we must now end the dangerous and demeaning practice of forcing women home from the hospital only hours after a mastectomy.  I ask your support for bipartisan legislation to guarantee that a woman can stay in the hospital for 48 hours after a mastectomy. With us tonight is Dr. Kristen Zarfos, a Connective surgeon whose outrage at this practice spurred a national movement and inspired this legislation. I'd like her to stand so we thank her for her efforts. 
