Deep in the Healthcare -environmental health hazards

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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

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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