“The White House’s budget for 2026 aims to slash science spending. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research, faces a nearly 40% cut.”

I used to care about this, and now I don’t. All of this is just rich people subsidy. If this means the end of the NIH funding biomedical research that then is commercialized and overcharged for on our dime again via Medicaid, it’s hard for me to have a problem with it. Private industry is supposedly the best at everything at all times. They can figure it out.

“The White House’s budget for 2026 aims to slash science spending. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s biggest funder of biomedical research, faces a nearly 40% cut.”

I used to care about this, and now I don’t. All of this is just rich people subsidy. If this means the end of the NIH funding biomedical research that then is commercialized and overcharged for on our dime again via Medicaid, it’s hard for me to have a problem with it. Private industry is supposedly the best at everything at all times. They can figure it out. 

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Newer treatments are often net less expensive though.

How many hospitalizations do vaccines, antibiotics and statins save. 

Drugs are comparatively cheap to medical care as a whole.

Gene editing and mRNA treatments beat chemo any day.