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Subject: This graph shows that President Obama’s proposed budget treats
the NIH even worse than G.W. Bush – Sign the petition to increase NIH
funding!
Date: March 23, 2012 8:14:00 AM EDT
(This article was first published on Simply Statistics, and kindly
contributed to R-bloggers)
The NIH provides financial support for a large percentage of biological and
medical research in the United States. This funding supports a large number
of US jobs, creates new knowledge, and improves healthcare for everyone. So
I am signing this petition:
NIH funding is essential to our national research enterprise, to our local
economies, to the retention and careers of talented and well-educated people
, to the survival of our medical educational system, to our rapidly fading
worldwide dominance in biomedical research, to job creation and preservation
, to national economic viability, and to our national academic
infrastructure.
The current administration is proposing a flat $30.7 billion FY 2013 NIH
budget. The graph below (left) shows how small the NIH budget is in
comparison to the Defense and Medicare budgets in absolute terms. The
difference between the administration’s proposal and the petition’s
proposal ($33 billion) are barely noticeable.
The graph on the right shows how in 2003 growth in the NIH budget fell
dramatically while medicare and military spending kept growing. However,
despite the decrease in rate, the NIH budget did continue to increase under
Bush. If we follow Bush’s post 2003 rate (dashed line), the 2013 budget
will be about what the petition asks for: $33 billion.
If you agree that the relatively modest increase in the NIH budget is worth
the incredibly valuable biological, medical, and economic benefits this
funding will provide, please consider signing the petition before April 15
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