One of the World Trade Center Health Program’s top doctors says that as Congress contemplates a reauthorization of the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, it must right a wrong baked into the original program, which is set to expire at the end of 2020 and may actually run out of money before that.
Dr. Michael Crane, who is the medical director of the WTC Health Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital, told this newspaper that any new version of the 9/11 VCF must include World Trade Center mental-health-connected illnesses on the list of 9/11 related afflictions that are eligible for monetary compensation.
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