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[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, [b]especially when we borrow 45 cents out of every dollar the government spends.[/b] That's not going to go on forever. Wake up![/quote]

A) NIH and other agencies also are subject to inflation and other things that affect budget increases over the course of twenty years.

B) NIH is a gateway for health services and procedures that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day because they aren't "profitable".  So lifesaving medicines and procedures that could very well save you or yours one day get tested and applied through agencies like NIH for the common good of all Americans.

C)  Your cognitive dissonance is stunning.  You're complaining about borrowing and yet the Republican plan would add trillions to the deficit not for health care, not for health research, not for anything of societal value - we'd be borrowing to give billionaires a tax break.

Why is that okay with you? How do you keep on rationalizing that? Unless your a billionaire, of course. [/quote]

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