On wednesday, the White House approved legislation to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City. This is for people who suffered from illnesses from breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke at ground zero. The one concern of this bill was from the 157 Republicans and three democrats who raised concerns about the $7.4 billion cost of the program. This bill is going to provide $3.2 billion over the next eight years to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at ground zero. Of these expenses, New York City would be paying 10 percent of those health costs. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in a variety of health monitoring and treatment related to the 9/11 attacks, according to the sponsors of the bill. The federal government is the one providing most of this money for these health programs. Yes, this bill has been having a lot of discrepancies between parties; but should there be any questions at all? These 9/11 victims did not harm them selves are selectively put themselves in harms way, nor did anyone of them do anything to cause this. This is a major public issue and has been since 9/11. I believe that the government are the ones who should be responsible for these survivors well being, how could they turn there heads on there own no matter money, no matter what party. These 9/11 survivors deserve every bill in there favor and everything they can get to help them with matters regarding to the 9/11 tragedy.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/911-health-care-bill-passes/?hp
I was going to write about this until you posted it. I am very glad to see this bill pass. This is a public problem that the government needs to address. This is changeable, immoral, and under government jurisdiction. With all the recent improvements to health care one would think that this wouldn't have been so long coming..
ReplyDeleteI am also very glad they passed this bill, in fact it should have been passed years ago. The fact is there are 60,000 people who need medical attention due to the 9/11 attacks. The government should definalty have some responsibility about helping these citizens. These attacks were a bad thing for our entire country and even worse for any person who actually experienced it. This is worst than a natural disaster which receives government help quickly.. which is why I believe this new bill is a great thing.
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