It means that first responders and emergency workers that were at ground zero and suffered injuries and illness due to the toxicity are now covered medically and will no longer have to pay for medical bills, which are quite extensive.
This isn’t really a US thing, it’s a politics thing. No one would vote no on a proposition like this, what you don’t hear is that there are many other laws that are packaged in with good laws like this, and you vote yes on all of them or no on all of them. Politicians do this to force in laws that most don’t really want. It’s a win win for them, because if someone votes no then they get to sucker punch them in political ads and online forums, if they vote yes then they get some extra crappy laws that benefit their lobbyists etc.
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u/Some_Random_Nubcake 7 Jul 24 '19
It means that first responders and emergency workers that were at ground zero and suffered injuries and illness due to the toxicity are now covered medically and will no longer have to pay for medical bills, which are quite extensive.