Workers' Compensation: Health Reform Coverage for Asbestos Victims

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Workers' Compensation: Health Reform Coverage for Asbestos Victims Expands

(this has the potential to also aid US workers who have been injured from microbial contaminants in water damaged buildings)

Health Reform Coverage for Asbestos Victims Expands

The Federal health reform medical coverage for asbestos victims is expanding in Libby Montana. The announcement was made by Senator Baucus who sponsored the innovated unified Federal healthcare legislation that is a national pilot program for the treatment of occupational illness and diseases..

"Libby Care" is an innovated plan under which the Federal government provides medical care to those who were exposed to asbestos fiber in the geographical area of the Libby asbestos mines. The mines were operated by WR Grace. The program is a pilot plan providing for free coverage to asbestos victims and is administered by Medicare. The pilot program may expand the Federal government's future role in providing medical coverage for all occupational exposure claims and thus avoid the litigious and burdened workers' compensation medical treatment system.

Sharon Noonan Kramer