A powerful development has emerged from our ongoing investigation into health insurance companies denying breast cancer patients coverage for critical care. On Friday, Republican U.S. Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Ocala, FL, and Debby Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, filed bipartisan new legislation to update protections for breast cancer patients.

Known as the

, to modernize the

, the legislation follows months of our exclusive reporting, which revealed how insurers were systematically denying patients coverage for reconstruction surgeries related to their breast cancer.

If approved, this law will be named after Rachel Roth McKnight, a young Tampa Bay mother whose personal breast cancer journey helped inspire these changes. Weve followed Rachels cancer and insurance battle since Febr

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