With little more than a week left before across-the-board federal budget cuts could go into effect, Massachusetts politicians joined scientists and the state’s top health care administrators Monday to offer a grim prognosis of the impact National Institutes of Health spending cuts would have on the Bay State, and Boston in particular.
NIH grants fund hundreds of millions in research annually at the Commonwealth’s hospitals and colleges.
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Don't worry, be happy.
Massachusetts taxpayers would be happy to bail out the program.
As well we should! It's a major driver of job creation.
DocotorL would you support an increase of the state income tax rate to 10% to support NIH and DoD cuts?
Great picture.
Chief Talking Bull looks like she's getting ready to "hammer the middle class" again.
Actually, she might pay attention to this...as NIH cuts would affect the country club that she and hubby were pulling 700K from for teach 2 classes...
You mean the "country club" where the net average costs to students are among the lowest in the region because of its need-blind admission policies?
Yeah! Who in "the middle class" suffers from things like "diabetes" or "Alzheimer's?" What use is an educated population that contributes to cutting edge research? Liberal propaganda, obviously.
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