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Editorial: Help for the 9/11 ailing: Congress can’t stall in passing bill for WTC responders and survivors

After years of effort from this column and elsewhere, in 2010 Congress created the World Trade Center Health Program and then in 2015 voted to keep it open for responders and survivors until 2090. But the numbers of people hit with cancers and other diseases from the poisons of the…

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9/11 heroes still fight for health care

Funding for 9/11 health program is set to run out of funding without congressional action

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Uterine cancer officially added to list of 9/11 illnesses, federal officials say

NEW YORK — Cancers of the uterus will be officially added to the federal list of 9/11-related health conditions, after months of delays, the Daily News has learned.

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Editorial: World Trade Center Health Program is left short by Senate shenanigans

Like the Afghan Adjustment Act that we lament, the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act also fell out of the Senate’s $1.7 trillion omnibus bill as senators wrapped up for the year. The $3.6 billion measure is needed to shore up the World Trade Center Health Program, providing…

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Bureaucratic red tape delaying approval of uterine cancer as 9/11 illness, advocates say

NEW YORK — Federal health officials are dragging their feet on adding cancers of the uterus to a list of 9/11-related health conditions — outraging survivors fighting to have the illnesses recognized.

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9/11 survivors upset latest legislation doesn’t include $3B for World Trade Center health program funding gap

WASHINGTON – By a vote of 400–31, the “Fairness for 9/11 Families Act” was approved by the House on Friday, leaving many survivors and responders wondering why a similar bill is not advancing to shore up their underfunded health program.

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Veterans who worked as 9/11 first responders can’t access WTC health program due to technicality

NEW YORK — Nate Coward didn’t ask questions when his company of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment was called on to recover and bury the Pentagon’s dead after a jetliner blew a massive hole in the military headquarters on Sept. 11, 2001.

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9/11 World Trade Center Health Program has $3B looming deficit

NEW YORK — The failure of President Joe Biden’s ambitious "Build Back Better" funding bill last December also had another casualty — nearly $3 billion meant to plug a looming deficit in the World Trade Center Health Program.

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Ground zero survivors battle New York-Presbyterian Hospital which won’t accept 9/11 Health Program

NEW YORK — Former NYPD traffic supervisor Walter Clark has nothing but good things to say about New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the care he received for his 9/11-related double lung transplant. But the bureaucratic nightmare that comes with it because the hospital won’t accept a health plan covering ground zero…

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