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Federal Aid To Those Sick From 9/11 Could Cost Taxpayers $13 Billion
DAPHNE RETTER and TOM TOPOUSIS
NY Post
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Federal legislation to help those suffering health problems from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks could cost taxpayers up to $13 billion, The Post has learned.
The bill, which will go before a House hearing today and is strongly backed by Mayor Bloomberg, would reopen the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and would provide funding for medical care for downtown residents and for firefighters, cops, EMTs and construction workers who worked at Ground Zero.
The preliminary estimate of the cost of the measure by the Congressional Budget Office ranged from $8 billion to $13 billion, congressional sources said.
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The staggering cost figure hasn’t been publicly disclosed yet but was revealed to The Post by sources.
Under the bill, roughly 35,000 people living within 1.5 miles of Ground Zero would be eligible for medical benefits at a projected cost of $3.1 billion. Thousands of first-responders would also receive medical aid at a cost of $2 billion.
As many as 85,000 first-responders could be eligible for medical aid. But the overall cost for their care is less than for residents because most of the first-responders have health insurance that covers a large share of their medical bills, sources said.
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:07 am
There not getting anything they dont deserve, the war in Irqa is costin a TRILLION $. tHERE SHOULD BE A WINDFALL TAX ON ALL THE COMPANIES THAT ARE PROFITING FROM THIS “SO CALLED WAR ON TERROR”
July 31st, 2008 at 10:23 am
Finally !
July 31st, 2008 at 10:44 am
mmm…how come they automatically bumped it up from just the first responders to ALL residents in the area? wierd.
July 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
We need another term for “tax” in these circustances. Somebody frame that word in another visual before it scares the GOP. I bet McCain is against any tax on elite, this would be one.
Need another term, or it will be swept away as another liberal tax on capital gains !
Are you for capital gains tax ? Then you are a socialist commie, the GOP will nail you with that every time. Are you for distribution of wealth by the Fed. Gov’t ?
The GOP playbook will come out on this. They will say Mark Cuban also need a windfall tax ! Cuban acutally does not mind paying more tax if middle America gets breaks. He feels that middle class will spend it, only if they have it to spend. Cuban is oppossed to tax rebate on Credit.
July 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
of course it will cost billions! why do you think they did not take care of these people on the first place? The democrats are going to use these people to justify socialized health care like the the British used the veterans of WWII. This is why they want to affect the entire area, setting the precedent for federal control over the health care systems of a small area. These people deserve all the help they need but why not just pay their expenses when they first exhibit symptoms? I’m sure they will now be pushed into a managed care system that will only allow them to be treated in certain hospitals.
By the way… what is the name of the bill and its number in the House? I think that something like this may be a bit of a hoax if the reporter cannot even realize that information like that is paramount to people actually confirming the stories for themselves. If anyone has a good reason why this reporter did not announce the name of the bill please tell me. Until the I feel a hoax coming on.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Sorry About The Link,
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I wonder what happened to the billions of dollars that was suppose to be given at least to the murdered victims’ relatives. I tend to remember that somewhere along the line there was well over a billion dollars donated by us people that the Red Cross received and another billion or so the federal government gave. Then I tend to remember that Rudolph “Mr. 9/11″ Guiliani somehow got control of all the money and they then were not able to give out all the money for whatever reason. To my knowledge to this day, only about half of that money was ever given out. In that case, forgetting whatever Guiliani managed to scrape out of it for himself, why were the extra dollars not given to the first responders when they did not have really severe illnesses 6 years ago to begin with? Remember? That is also when many people already living within a certain distance of Ground Zero were offered virtually anything they wanted. There were not enough respondants. So those people I would think are automatically disqualified.
Rhonda
PS: I wonder why no one ever mentions all the billions of dollars that Congress gave Boeing as quickly as possible after 9/11 since it was not only a false claim, but why should we have paid them anything, as Dr. Ron Paul would say? It was a false claim because Boeing said that 9/11 put them on the brink of going bankrupt. How strange since they only manufactured the jets, not owned them and even if that somehow could have been their loss, no way could the bankruptcy have occurred that day. It takes time for a business of that size to get near the point of going belly up.
The ironic thing about that also is that last year or the year before a military contract, I believe it was, was lost by Boeing to Air Bus, the European jetliner manufacturer. If our Congress or just federal government as a whole, did not want Boeing to go bankrupt, forgetting about the competition, should not Boeing have been given the federal contract for billions of dollars to help maintain the government’s (our) investment, if for no other reason? Sounds like a job that Alex Jones should have been on years ago.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:42 am
“When the towers came down, and everybody froze
Bush and Giuliani came up smelling like a rose
Traitor…Dare call it treason”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
August 1st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
it’s about freakin time. DOUBLE IT!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
stop the war tomorrow, we’d have the money to give everyone medical care!
February 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thoise who beleive in God, will agree that He has His own way of evening out things, though men most often ingor or over look.