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Research into treatment like this are generally funding significantly by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which is looking at a $1 billion budget cut by Republicans.
The treatment may also benefit from a provision in the Affordable Care Act, assuming it is not cut. The Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) is a program to speeds up the process of getting drugs and treatments from the lab to the patient.
John Porter, a former Republican member of Congress recently said about the proposed NIH cuts, “America’s economic destiny depends upon maintaining and enhancing our lead in technology, innovation, science and research...These are blind cuts that take us exactly in the wrong direction; they are wrong-headed and short-sighted.”
If not focused ultrasound, that $ 1 billion in cuts will impact other equally valuable programs in the name of deficit reduction.
Good public policy or just the good new politics of slash and burn the budget?
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