Money to Treat 9/11 Workers Will Run Out, Officials Say
The roughly $40 million that was set aside by the federal government to treat rescue workers, volunteers and firefighters who became ill after helping with the 9/11 cleanup and recovery will run out in months, physicians and federal officials said yesterday.
Members of Congress from New York and New Jersey secured $75 million a year ago to pay for health care expenses — including $40 million for treatments like drugs and medical procedures — for about 32,000 workers who reported ailments after working at ground zero. Distribution of the treatment money did not begin in earnest until October.
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and others have long argued that the federal commitment to aiding 9/11 workers was too little and too late. Yesterday morning, Mrs. Clinton, three House members from New York City and labor representatives and medical experts met with federal health officials at Hunter College in Manhattan.
Mrs. Clinton said the new Congress faces “a lot of tough choices.” She added: “I am not going to say where the money should come from, I’m merely saying that this should be a national priority. It is not just a New York priority.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/nyregion/19health.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=sloginThere is a tremendous disconnect at best if not high degree of disingenuous behavior by Hillary in acknowledging that the money is running out for this "high priority" but she continues to vote for funds for the Iraq War which she knows perfectly well could be going to all sorts of domestic spending including this program.
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