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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want you to think about this... (rough numbers, not exact)

In 1999 Congress increased the NIH's budget by $2.3 billion[29] to $17.2 billion in 2000.[30] In 2009 Congress again increased the NIH budget to $31 billion in 2010.[30] In March 2017, President Trump proposed to cut the 2018 budget by 18.3%, or about $5.8 billion to $25.9 billion.[31]:26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health

Their budget has doubled in less than twenty years. That's a ridiculous debasement of our currency, especially when we borrow 45 cents out of every dollar the government spends. That's not going to go on forever. Wake up![/quote]
And how much has the defense budget gone up in that same time period?[/quote]

That $2.3 billion increase included an additional $350 million for Alzheimer’s research, $200 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative, $85 million for the BRAIN Initiative, and $303 million for combating [b]antibiotic-resistant bacteria[/b].

The NIH also funds from the Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) that supports our Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC) at Johns Hopkins University....and more

Failure to keep research funding at least on par of cost of living will also result in fewer people entering scientific fields. Slowing research would be a  detriment to all of us as new infectious diseases appear.

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Don't GAS. Privatize it. The government spends up spending five times what the provate sector does to get the same outcomes.

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[b]The private sector can conduct this research too and share it with everyone. But they don’t. That is why we have NIH and other grant programs that support research.[/b] [/quote]
The federal government funds basic scientific research primarily.  The private sector uses these results to develop applications they can make money from.  The research budget of the US is an innovations machine.  The private sector does not have much of an incentive to do basic research (sometimes called curiosity driven science) because they cannot patent the gains in general knowledge but the deep and wide knowledge the scientific community gains from basic research projects conducted in government labs or in university settings (with the help of federal grant money) has a huge payoff for the private sector.  Federal research funding is also responsible for financing the education of the vast majority of PhDs in the sciences.  The public and the private sector get a lot of bang for their buck.  Conservative estimates are a $3 return for each $1 spent even after recognizing that not every scientific study has an obvious rationale.
http://www.sciencecoalition.org/federal_investment[/quote]

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