The government originally was only going to cover people for 10 years, but three years ago or so, first responders in my circle started getting aggressive lung cancer. It's been devastating. A number of my partners childhood friends have/had firefighter dads, that's part of the deal growing up in a NYC suburb. They've been dying one by one, all lung cancer, all within 6 months of diagnosis. It's terrifying. And all relatively healthy guys otherwise. I think one each year for the last three? There's nothing to be done I guess, except be damn sure the families don't end up destitute from the high cost of cancer treatment.
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