NIH Funding — Trump Administration Proposes Big Cuts In Medical Research

So bad news everyone I just saw the story below detailing a big cut to the NIH budget. Unfortunately this will delay any US treatment research by years. Awesome...

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...tration-proposes-big-cuts-in-medical-research

P.S. Don't hate on me; I live in Maryland and although I voted I had no impact on any national election races.

 

Yep the good old Electoral College system (sarcasm). I think it is undemocratic and suppresses voter participation but oh well that's life. Haha regarding my vote you might be interpreting the choice incorrectly.

The one additional note though is that the budget proposes that the VA receive a 6% increase in funding. With so many tinnitus disabled US Veterans it could be possible that they would step up to sponsor some research funding.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/16/52030...rd-power-budget-that-boosts-military-spending

 

The plus side is that, whilst usually the USA is at the forefront of medical research, it's Big Pharma and corporate money that is pushing that research ahead. Unusually, it's over here in Europe (especially England) and New Zealand which seem to be leading the way in hearing and T research (along with several universities in the States, which will hopefully still get funding).

 

Trump can eat a dick. This is bullshit..

 

Anyone seen the deficits we run in the US. Anyone check the last 8 years to see how much debt the US has. We can't keep going like that. I'm sad too, but cuts have to be made somewhere.

Hearing loss cures are now in the hands of private companies. This won't affect that at all.

As far as Tinnitus. We are a ways away from anything that will help us. I'm not really sure how much of that would have gone toward T anyway, but its probably very minimal if any.

You would think with a 30 billion dollar budget we would be finding cures a lot quicker....

Right now our biggest hope for T is that a hearing loss cure comes out that helps to lower or stop T. As for T due to other factors, its going to be a while anyway.

 

Oh yeah, the "big deficit" that means absolutely NOTHING to anyone who ever brings it up. You realize that normal countries have debt on their books, right?

You also realize that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with driving down the deficit and EVERYTHING to do with cutting taxes for the wealthy? The budget that is being proposed RAISES DEBT higher than ever. Also, NO, the past 8 years the deficit wasn't rising under Obama. In fact, IT WAS GOING DOWN.

LINK: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...e-cut-our-deficits-three-fourths-obama-state/

No wonder the GOP wins in the USA again and again. Facts do not matter in the USA, only "feelings" about what is right.

 

I've played the devil's advocate for Trump before, he has said a number of stupid things, but this is by far the worst proposal. We should be making cuts to the defence budget and spend more on medical research. I hope it doesn't go through.

Without the electoral college a few large states would dominate the entire federation. It's a compromise, but without it lesser populated states could be ignored and walked all over by the federal government. You cannot just pick and choose when it suits you and when it doesn't.

 

Based on quarterly data released by the US Treasury, the debt at the end of 2008 — just before Obama took office — stood at roughly $10,699,805,000,000.

As of the third quarter of 2016, the most recent data available, the debt as Obama is set to leave office stood at $19,573,445,000,000.

Our national debt doubled in 8 years......

I'm with you guys, but the bleeding has to stop somewhere. We can't keep going like this.

 

I think Trump is as much of a loser as anyone, but let me play devil's advocate here.

Trump wants to increase military spending, which means more money for the Dept. of Defense. The VA is expected to receive a lot of this increased military spending - one of the only good things Trump is planning. With tinnitus being the #1 service-related disability, it stands to reason that the DoD would continue funding research at places like UPitt to help veterans restore their hearing loss.

 

This post is just trolling. Just because there is less funding overall doesn't mean any specific disease gets less money. That is not how government or business works. A overall budget could get cut, and specific funding in an area could actually go up.

The better tactic would be to lobby against other diseases, such as AIDS, cancer and others that have billions of corporate investment.

In other words, lobby for the budget that is there, arguing that problems that have less corporate research dollars (like T) should get more government dollars than conditions where big business is investing, or ones that have much larger charities driving research (like AIDS and cancer).

Or better yet, have the EU focus their dollars on one thing (T where they already seem to be ahead), the US on another (AIDS). How much duplication is out there with government spending in diseases worldwide? How about having the number 2 economy China pull their weight?

But instead of solving a budgeting problem creatively, you rather troll for political points.