Feds fix loophole preventing soldiers from getting 9/11 health care

The federal government is fixing a mistake that excluded members of the U.S. armed services who worked at Sept. 11 crash sites and came down with a 9/11 illness from getting pivotal health coverage, the New York Daily News has learned. Additions to the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act will now allow soldiers and sailors, other Department of Defense personnel, and federal employees who helped sift through the rubble at the Pentagon and the destroyed remains of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to enroll in the World Trade Center Health Program. When Congress initially wrote t...