In Washington, the National Institutes of Health is special. But is it super special?
That is, will the research agency's unique bipartisan appeal inside the Beltway produce both an agreement to avoid looming cuts to the agency under a deficit-reduction law and show the way to broader deficit deal? At least one member of Congress who sits on an influential committee thinks it can.
Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said Thursday that bipartisan efforts under way to avoid cuts to the relatively tiny NIH budget could “build the foundation” for an agreement replacing many of the $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts required by the Budget Control Act of 2011. Providers are among the multitude watching discussions to replace the so-called sequester, as it requires Medicare to cut $11.1 billion from their reimbursements next year.
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The NFL and the NIH are two acronyms that you’ll rarely find in the same sentence let alone in the same huddle.
But that was the case this week, when the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health announced the NFL agreed to donate $30 million for the Foundation’s new Sports and Health Research Program. The philanthropic gift—the largest in the league’s 92-year history—made the NFL the founding donor to the new program, which an NIH spokeswoman says will involve multiple NIH centers and institutes.
“We hope this grant will help accelerate the medical community’s pursuit of pioneering research to enhance the health of athletes past, present and future,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a news release.
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