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To the Editor: People all over the world were shocked by the disaster of September 11, 2001. I want to emphasize what the editors wrote about medical insurance in the Journal's editorial on the subject (Oct. 11 issue)¹: "Victims and their families must receive medical and mental health attention regardless of their ability to pay and whether or not they have medical insurance."

I believe that the international community of physicians should fight for justice in medical treatment. It is noteworthy that 40 million Americans have no medical insurance and billions of people in the Third World do . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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