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my great niece has been battling cancer for yearsBlackvegetable » 52 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ How **** stupid would you have to be to fall for Grifty's "Cancer child" moment?
Mango Moron appoints a fellow moron to head HHS, and invites Elon and his Elonjugend to savage the NIH..
Then he trots out some sick kid and deputizes him.
Predictably **** toadies, frothing at the FOXaganda, bite down on the stinkbait.
Imagine being this **** stupid in real life...
So why did Grifty trot out a cancer patient?
In their heedless quest to chainsaw the federal budget, the world’s most powerful person and the richest man on Earth managed to cut a program that had cost nothing at all—while developing more than 60 drugs for children with cancer and rare, life-threatening diseases.“This program has not cost taxpayers a dime,” notes Nancy Goodman, who conceived and championed the Give Kids A Chance Act, which passed Congress in 2011 and now needs renewal.
The year-long measure had been a great success when it needed to be reauthorized in December. The legislation to renew it was then bundled in with numerous health-care provisions as part of a huge Continuing Resolution meant to fund the government from December 2024 to March 2025. Musk, who has been tasked by President Donald Trump with gutting the federal government, took note that the entire resolution was 1,547 pages. He exulted in Latin on X when it was cut at his insistent urging to a mere 116 pages. “VOX POPULI! VOX DEI!” (The voice of the people [is] the voice of God!)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-awkward-truth-about-trump-musk-and-kids-with-cancer/?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning&user_emailA=747e2c47e25e88dd883ee1a00fac3b7b&user_emailB=6c501e8b62ed5b45ef9e02ca49deffe8dd47ba958fb41edb9dcab8991a363872&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=250306-am-digest&utm_term=F%20List%20Daily%20Beast%20Newsletter%20AM
**** scumbags.
and her parents are scared to death
its embarrassing how little money goes to childhood cancer research
it’s always been that way
chainsaws are a terrible way to fix things
According to the NIH Office of Budget, the average reimbursement rate in recent years has been around 27-28%, although in some cases that rate can reach as high as 70%. The new proposed change would cap the reimbursement rate at a mere 15%.In its announcement of the proposal, the NIH estimated that the change could save the federal government as much $4 billion annually. However, those savings come at a steep cost for the pediatric cancer research community. Many universities rely on NIH reimbursements to maintain the kind of high-tech facilities and highly trained staff that are necessary to conduct clinical trials and other forms of medical research. Pediatric cancer research, in particular, is often expensive due to the relative rarity of many childhood cancers, the smaller number of patients able to participate in trials, and the need for specialized equipment capable of accommodating the physiology of small children.
https://pcrf-kids.org/2025/02/27/an-unc ... -research/
