Rudy Giuliani Wants 9/11 Health Fund to Cover His Medical Bills

New York Daily News / Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Rudy Giuliani is hoping to have the medical bills for his pneumonia diagnosis covered through a federal healthcare program set up to assist emergency workers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City during 9/11, is seeking enrollment in the World Trade Center Health Program , which was established to provide free healthcare to people who suffered long-term illnesses linked to exposure to toxins after the attacks. In the years following 9/11, firefighters and other emergency workers reported illnesses, including cancer and respiratory conditions, after breathing in carcinogens and toxic dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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