9/11 survivor advocates press state to get more New Yorkers into free health care

Forward of the twenty first anniversary of the Sept. 11 assaults, survivors are calling for extra state help in letting New Yorkers know the best way to entry authorities assist with medical payments.

“It’s outrageous that our authorities isn’t doing sufficient to coach these those that they’re entitled to free well being look after the remainder of their lives,” lawyer Michael Barasch, whose legislation apply was simply blocks from Floor Zero, informed The Submit Thursday.

Whereas round 80% of first responders have accessed assist in coping with issues and different medical points attributable to poisonous publicity, roughly 10% of New Yorkers who labored under Canal Road that day have completed the identical, Barasch added.

Corporations that had 50 or extra workers in the course of the clean-up effort ending Could 30, 2002 must notify employees past and present of their eligibility for federal advantages below a invoice proposed by Assemblyman Nader Sayegh (D-Yonkers).

The state Legislature is scheduled to reconvene subsequent January.