A decision by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt a plan to create a national Sept. 11th health program could cripple the effort to help sick workers living outside of New York, state officials said Saturday....
...Citing confusion among potential bidders and expected cost overruns, CDC officials said Thursday the agency was halting the process of gathering proposals to create a World Trade Center Business Process Center.
The federally funded center would reimburse doctors treating people who traveled to assist in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks on the trade center, as well as first responders who then lived in the New York metropolitan area and later moved away. The program also would gather data about 9/11-related illnesses....
....The contract had aimed to organize and improve various Sept. 11 health programs and provide pharmacy benefits. Health officials feared the work could cost as much as $165 million, far more than the $52 million Congress had provided....
Some inconvenient data appears to have gotten in the way of the propaganda.
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