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Will the Senate Finally Help Rescuers and Volunteers of 9/11?

Posted on Oct 07, 2010

Finally, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act passes the United States House of Representatives in a 268 to 160 vote. New York representatives Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler worked to get the bill through House committees and eventually, to the voting stage. The bill can now move to the Senate and President Obama already issued a statement that he plans to sign the bill once it lands on his desk.

Supporters of this bill argued that the government needs to put a long-term health program in place for 9/11 injured workers and volunteers because while Congress provides money to nearly 60,000 people on an annual basis to monitor health and provide medical treatment to rescue workers injured at ground zero, there are fears that the annual funding is subject to the whims of Congress and the White House and could end at any time, leaving these people without assistance for treating their medical problems.

The 9/11 Health and Compensation Act would provide $7.4 billion in medical care ($3.2 billion a year for 8 years) and monitoring to thousands of rescue workers and residents of New York City injured during 9/11 or who have suffered irreparable ailments and illnesses from breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke around ground zero. It's also going to reopen 9/11 victims compensation fund, with $4.2 billion, to compensate individuals through medical care and workers compensation, who were shut out of the original program because their illnesses didn't surface until after it was closed.

The Act is named after Joseph Zadroga, the detective who was lost to fatal pulmonary fibrosis.