US wants 9/11 health program to include 50 cancers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jun 8, 9:16 PM EDT
US wants 9/11 health program to include 50 cancers
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- People who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment of the disease and potentially hefty compensation payments under a rule proposed Friday by federal health officials.

After months of study, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said in an administrative filing that it favored a major expansion of an existing $4.3 billion 9/11 health program to include people with 50 types of cancer, covering 14 broad categories of the disease.

People with any of the cancers on the list could qualify for treatments and payments as long as they and their doctors make a plausible case that the disease was connected to the caustic dust.

The decision followed years of emotional lobbying by construction workers, firefighters, police officers, office cleaners, and many other people who fell ill in the decade after the terror attack, and were sure it had something to do with the many days they spent toiling in the gray soot.



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[Fearless]

1. Hell I'd like that too.

Fat chance of Republicans accepting it though.

[area51]

2. There wouldn't even be a question of treatment being available

if this were a first-world country where citizens had a right to health care.

Single-payer health care NOW.

[Heather4]

3. Spam deleted by Morning Dew (MIR Team)

[Sirveri]

4. Wouldn't need it if we had single payer.

But I guess we want to spend a bunch more money so we can not treat the people who need it the most.

[lovuian]

5. The air was given the OK by the EPA and it was a LIE

Guiliana and the EPA lied

911 killed more people than the planes that hit the towers
we are going to see much more deaths