Friday, June 29, 2007
This Sucks
From the Lance Armstrong Foundation:
While the cancer community has united around requesting a 6.7% increase for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and experts say at least a 3.7% increase is necessary to keep pace with medical inflation, the initial draft of the House appropriations bill includes less than a third of that amount, or 1.5%. The request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which includes NCI, is currently only 1.9% over last year's level.
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While the cancer community has united around requesting a 6.7% increase for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and experts say at least a 3.7% increase is necessary to keep pace with medical inflation, the initial draft of the House appropriations bill includes less than a third of that amount, or 1.5%. The request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which includes NCI, is currently only 1.9% over last year's level.
Click here to send a message to your federal represenatives.
# posted by Jen @ 12:56 PM 
