Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community

Michael Barasch and the Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community team went to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to fully fund the World Trade Center Health Program, which provide medical care for 9/11 responders and survivors with cancer, respiratory illnesses, and other health conditions. A broad coalition of 9/11 community advocates, including Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, FealGood Foundation ONE President John Feal, first responder organizations, and labor unions joined in support of the health program. “Every day, more and more people who were exposed to toxins in Lower Manhattan on and after 9/11 are diagnosed with cancer,” said Barasch. “The federal government has a responsibility to protect these 9/11 community members and their families.”

In 2010, 2015 and in 2019, we asked members of the 9/11 community to join us and reach out to their Representatives in Congress to convince them to pass and extend the 9/11 Zadroga Health & Compensation Act. Thousands of our clients around the country called their legislators and demanded their support. As a result of this mobilization, and the support of the unions, Congress did the right thing by fully funding and permanently extending the Victim Compensation Fund. Unfortunately, due to the explosion of cancers and medical inflation, the WTC Health Program is underfunded. You know that for thousands who are sick from the toxins at Ground Zero, 9/11 didn't end on 9/11. Thousands of responders and civilians continue to get cancer every year, and more people have now died from 9/11 illnesses than the 2,977 souls who perished that day. The World Trade Center Health Program is the lifeline the 9/11 Community depends on for the medical care they need and deserve. But it will face a funding shortfall in a few years unless Congress acts now. Now you have a chance, once again, to tell Washington that “Remembering 9/11 is not just a bumper sticker.” Our supporters in Congress have introduced the bipartisan “9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding and Correction Act of 2025” (H.R. 1410/S. 739) which would ensure that the program gets the funding it needs. I was in DC last week at a press conference which announced the bills and demanded that Congress fulfill its pledge to "Never Forget". Now that the legislation has been introduced, Congress needs to act. Your Members of Congress need to hear from you. Please send Congress a message. Tell your representatives you are a member of the 9/11 community and one of their constituents. Let them know how important the WTCHP is to you and that you want them to cosponsor the “9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding and Correction Act.” Our Friends at Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Act Inc. have made it easy for you to contact your Members of Congress and ask them to cosponsor the bill. 1. All you need to do is go to their website (included in the first comment). 2. Type in your address. After a brief load, it will tell you who your Members of Congress are and whether they are already cosponsors of the bill. 3. If they aren't yet a cosponsor, type in your phone number. You will be connected to the Congressperson's office, free of charge, so you can talk to their staff and tell them you want their boss to cosponsor this bill. This legislation will ensure the funding for medical care now and into the future for all 9/11 responders and survivors. It will allow the Health Program to continue accepting new patients. People in the 9/11 Community are not going to stop getting sick. We need and deserve this health care! Please share this information and urge your friends and neighbors to join you in contacting your Members of Congress today! With deep respect, Michael Barasch

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Barasch & McGarry - Lawyers for the 9/11 Community went to Tampa, Florida, to speak with 9/11 responders about the campaign to fully fund the World Trade Center Health Program. Michael Barasch and Richard Alles joined more than 200 retired NYPD officers to discuss the health program, which provides medical care for 9/11 responders and survivors who have been diagnosed with cancer, respiratory illness, and other health conditions. “Every day, two of my clients are dying of cancer…it’s heartbreaking,” said Michael Barasch, who represents more than 40,000 members of the 9/11 community. “Because of the explosion of cancers among people exposed to Ground Zero toxins and the increasing cost of medical care, the World Trade Center Health Program needs additional funding to continue treating patients.” “For 9/11?first responders, it’s not a question of if you’re going to get sick, it’s a matter of when,” said Alles, a retired New York City Fire Department Deputy Chief, who himself responded to the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001.

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Ever since the Zadroga Act was introduced, a bipartisan coalition in the federal government has supported?9/11?responders and survivors who have been diagnosed with cancer and respiratory illness. That support has allowed the?9/11?community to access health care that saves lives and compensation awards that keep families in their homes. We thank New York State’s Congressional delegation for its successful campaign to protect the World Trade Center Health Program, as well as funds to research 9/11-related cancers. Next week, Michael Barasch will join John Feal and other 9/11 community advocates on Capitol Hill to campaign for the full funding of the health program, which needs $3 billion to continue providing medical care beyond 2027.

Thousands of Florida residents – and more than 137,000 people nationwide – have access to free health care through the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides free medical care for 9/11-related health conditions - such as skin, prostate, breast, and lung cancers, as well as lymphoma and leukemia. At a recent meeting of more than 200 retired NYPD officers in Fort Myers, 9/11 advocates Michael Barasch and Richard Alles discussed the campaign to protect the health program, which needs additional funding from Congress to continue providing services beyond 2027. “9/11 responders and survivors have a dramatically higher risk for 69 different types of cancer and many serious respiratory illnesses,” Barasch said. “We are calling on the federal government to acknowledge its responsibility to these heroes and fully fund the health program.”

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9/11 responders and survivors are rallying to protect the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides free medical care for 9/11-related health conditions, such as skin, prostate, breast, and lung cancers, along with lymphoma and leukemia, to more than 137,000 members of the 9/11 community. Michael Barasch and Richard Alles spoke with FOX13 Tampa Bay, where they joined a meeting of more than 200 retired NYPD officers, many of them 9/11 responders. “We cannot allow the federal government – which initially claimed the air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe – to ignore the needs of 9/11 responders and survivors who are dying of cancer every day of the year,” Barasch said. “This nation, this Congress, made a commitment to protect their rights.”

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