Sick 9/11 Responders Slam Obama: We're dying while you worry about Mosque

[FrankRep]

Ailing 9/11 responders slam President Obama: Focus on Zadroga health bill, not Ground Zero mosque (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/18/2010-08-18_focus_on_zadroga_bill_bam_mosque_site_not_an_is sue_911_heroes_fume.html)


NY Daily News
August 18th 2010



Ailing 9/11 responders slammed President Obama on Tuesday for sounding off on the Ground Zero mosque while keeping silent on a $7.2 billion health care bill.

"Why have you failed us? We thought you would be our champion" in pushing the legislation, John Feal wrote to Obama.
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The plight of the Ground Zero heroes, still suffering and dying from illnesses brought on by the toxic cloud over the twin towers' ruins, has taken a backseat to the political posturing over the mosque, Feal said.
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens), who has worked closely with the responders on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/9%2f11+Health+and+Compensation+Act), seconded their complaints about Obama.
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SOURCE:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/18/2010-08-18_focus_on_zadroga_bill_bam_mosque_site_not_an_is sue_911_heroes_fume.html

[Acala]

I said it before and I will repeat: $7.2 BILLION could hire a private doctor for life for each person truly exposed to toxic levels of 9/11 dust. That is not a health care bill for a couple thousand sick people, this is something else entirely. Don't know what, but it ain't about health care for a few people.

[BuddyRey]

Bump!

[dannno]

I said it before and I will repeat: $7.2 BILLION could hire a private doctor for life for each person truly exposed to toxic levels of 9/11 dust. That is not a health care bill for a couple thousand sick people, this is something else entirely. Don't know what, but it ain't about health care for a few people.

The doctors aren't expensive, it's the treatments... cause you know, we have that whole corporate health insurance thing going that drives up prices..

What makes you think there are only a couple thousand who were apart of the clean-up crew and survivors :confused: Was it in the article :confused: