I don't deny that former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has the right to earn a living, but getting it on the back of first responders from 9/11 seems a bit, um, unfeeling.
Following the attacks while he was Secretary of HHS there were a lot of complaints about his department's denial that the air quality in NYC was poisonous. Now a company he heads has a contract to monitor the health of the same people sickened by that air quality.
In the years since the 2001 attacks, studies show workers who toiled at the site have had higher than normal rates of lung problems and post-traumatic stress. Others have complained of an increase in gastrointestinal disorders.[snip]
Logistics Health will provide annual examinations to World Trade Center responders around the country, diagnose and treat Sept. 11-related conditions and provide a pharmacy benefit to those responders.
H/T Think Progress.
Posted by Linkmeister at June 4, 2008 12:59 PM | TrackBack Is such skepticism really called for? Previously Thompson believed that the air was poisonous. Now he no longer believes this. The $11 million his company will make is incidental, I'm sure.
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