This evening Hillary appeared at an event dedicated to renewing healthcare for the first responders who continue developing serious health conditions and dying at an alarming rate.
She described 'the pile,' which she visited on 9/12/01, as " a scene from Dante's Inferno" and told the audience, "Last week, we mourned. This week, we mobilize." She called organized labor her principal ally in the struggle for healthcare for these workers. A few Images and quotes here thanks to Emily Ngo of Newsday on Twitter.
'The pile,' you may remember, burned from 9/11/01 until 2/12/02 when it was finally extinguished. Those who worked there went every single day without thought for their own health or welfare. We should remember them in those days as what they were, soldiers on a battlefield. It was, after all, the site of an attack on the homeland.
Continuing healthcare for first responders was not the only health issue Hillary has addressed so far this week. Yesterday, in D.C. she told cardiologists at a Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) that the fee-for-service model in medical care may be on its way out.
Yesterday she tweeted her congratulations to California for winning paid sick days.
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton says fee-for-service medicine is probably an idea whose time has passed. Hillary to TCT: Fee-for-Service Days Are Numbered
Published: Sep 16, 2014
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