The thousands of first-responders families who's loved ones died in the towers and afterwards of respiratory disease were further insulted by being denied health coverage because of his portion of the incompetence and greed.
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Gauging the health effects of the World Trade Center exposure is an enormous task and an inexact science. About 43,000 have been physically screened for 9/11-related health issues in New York. Twenty-eight thousand are in the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and 15,000 are enrolled at a sister program at the FDNY. Meanwhile, the WTC Health Registry has tracked the health effects of 71,000 workers, volunteers and residents though surveys.
While the WTC program provides comprehensive treatment for eligible participants, it doesn't cover every medical condition that a responder develops. Ailing workers must have a condition that is on the list outlined by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Sick 9/11 responders are not just suffering physically. Some say the emotional and psychological trauma is equally unbearable. Many complain they are being denied medical care and claims through a multi-layered wall of political gridlock, city red tape and legal stonewalling.
Two funds established in the wake of 9/11 have come to epitomize the responders' frustration. Sick workers say the Victim's Compensation Fund failed to adequately cover them and the initial deadline to enroll expired in 2003 - well before some of the most serious diseases began to manifest themselves. Meanwhile the Captive Insurance Fund, set up to reimburse injured World Trade center workers, has consistently fought claims by ill first responders.
