Op-Ed
If all Americans had health care we would not need a separate bill for the rescuers that have become ill from working at ground zero after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center. But that is what republicans in the United States Senate are blocking now; healths care for the heroes of September 11th.
The most celebrated heroes of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks were New York City firefighters. During the months that followed 9-11, television audiences throughout the world watched funeral after funeral as New York firefighters buried their brothers who lost their lives under the rubble of the Twin Towers. They never questioned their duty when it called. And the US Senate should not question the need to provide health care for them as they struggle for their lives now.
Those who have no trouble remembering the dead from 9-11 need to remind republicans in the Senate who are blocking the 9-11 bill, that cutting off health care for our firefighter veterans is as unpatriotic as defending tax cuts for the rich, while American children go to bed hungry.
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