Zadroga Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/health/research/02cancer.html?ref=health

I'm sure many of my fellow Daily Show watchers remember this past Dec a very well done episode. Jon Stewart brought on 9/11 first responders to pretty much blast the Senate (specifically the Republicans who were filibustering the bill) for not passing the Zadroga bill. After this aired, they did pass the bill. But it was crap. The list of covered conditions does not include cancer. I'm disgusted, to put it lightly. Why are we nitpicking over what has "overwhelming evidence" to be included in the coverage, yet we can easily pass a bill extending Bush era tax cuts to the wealthy? Gah, reading this article just brings up all the hurt and anger I felt when this happened in December. Here are the videos from The Daily Show. I watched them again today after reading the article, just to refresh my memory. And I teared up a little.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster?xrs=share_copy

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/worst-responders?xrs=share_copy

Sorry you have to click the links...tried to post the videos but kept having problems and gave up. Huh, maybe I'm more like Obama than I thought...