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"Healthcare-NOW!" <emailSeptember 11, 2009 12:30:00 AM HSTvivlernerSubject: Support the 9/11 Responders If you're having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. Call your Congresspersons Now!Tell them to:Support Rep. Weiner's Medicare for All AmendmentRetain Rep. Kucinich's State Single-Payer AmendmentSupport S. 703 Dear Healthcare-NOW! Supporter:When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, more than 50,000 people responded to the call to action to help with recovery at the World Trade Center. 8 years later, these same heroes feel great betrayal as more are dying from 9/11 related injuries and illnesses without proper health care or financial security.A recent article in the New York Post cited more than 800 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have died since 9/11 -- and cancer has killed at least 270 people (data is still being collected and the number is likely much higher).9/11 responders have been plagued with respiratory problems, cancer, financial, and emotional problems, while 90% of 9/11 responders dont have proper medical care.Responders are still being turned down for benefits, despite the mounting evidence that they were exposed to unsafe conditions during the recovery process."Many responders and their families and friends feel betrayed by Congress and are appalled by the callous indifference, lack of support and meager financial resources provided by the US government," says Steve Centore, author of One of Them.As all Americans who face a health care crisis whether insured or not, the 9/11 responders are at higher risk of foreclosures and bankruptcies."Once we are unable to work, we lose our health care and so does our family thus placing us into catastrophically financial ruin which no one can return from. If the heroes from 9/11 after saving thousands of lives are placed at the bottom of society and left to die, so can any citizen," says Reggie Cervantes, 9/11 responder featured in Michael Moores film, SiCKO.We need to remember those who died and those who are dying as a result of contamination at the World Trade Center. The best way to guarantee immediate help to the 9/11 responders and to ensure that no one is ever faced with such neglect after making great sacrifices for this county is to implement a national single-payer health care system. We are all together in the same boat. It shouldnt take devastation on the magnitude of 9/11 to remind us that the only way a health care system can work is if everybody is in, and nobody is left out.Please make your call today for single-payer health care reform and say:1) Support Congressman Weiners single-payer amendment 2) Retain Congressman Kucinichs amendment for state single-payer options in HR 3200 3) Support S. 703All you have to do is go here, even if you don't know your Rep. Fill out your address and phone number, you will receive a call script, then you will be connected to your Rep. FREE of charge. In peace and health, Healthcare-NOW! National Staff The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care Healthcare-NOW! survives on the generosity of our supporters. Please consider making a donation to support our efforts to pass HR 676 using our secure server. 339 Lafayette St. | New York, NY 10012 US This email was sent to vivlerner. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list.manage your preferences | opt out using TrueRemove™Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails. EmailNow powered by Emma =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.