Re: Deep in the Healthcare -environmental health hazards

[Guest guest]

I hope so, it can be a hudge problem when your on disability and no

environmental doctors take medicare. now the out of pocket payment has went up

too.

>

>

> Published: December 20, 2009

> WASHINGTON — Buried in the deal-clinching health care package that Senate

Democrats unveiled over the weekend is an inconspicuous proposal expanding

Medicare to cover certain victims of " environmental health hazards. "

> Wonder if this includes many of us.

>

> n Smialowski for The New York Times

> Senators Max Baucus, left, Harry Reid and J. Dodd at a news

conference on Saturday. Mr. Reid, the majority leader, needed all 60 members of

his caucus to back the health bill.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21healthcare.html

> Senators Debate Health Care (MSNBC)

> Related

> Senate Debate on Health Care Exacerbates Partisanship (December 21, 2009)

> Hopes Dim, G.O.P. Still Vows to Fight Health Bill (December 21, 2009)

> Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes (December 21, 2009)

The intended beneficiaries are identified in a cryptic, mysterious way:

individuals exposed to environmental health hazards recognized as a public

health emergency in a declaration issued by the federal

>