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Gov. Healy: NIH, Medicaid cuts threaten Boston Children's research and patients
Summary
Massachusetts Gov. Healy said federal proposals to cut NIH funding and Medicaid risk halting clinical trials, costing jobs and harming children during a visit to Boston Children's Hospital, where hospital leaders and state health officials described disruptions to research and vaccine monitoring.
Massachusetts Gov. Healy visited Boston Children's Hospital on Oct. 12 to highlight what he described as an immediate threat from proposed federal cuts to National Institutes of Health funding and to Medicaid that he said are already disrupting pediatric research and patient care.
Healy said the proposed cuts affect not only research budgets but also clinical trials and jobs: "These cuts are going to cost jobs. They're going to cost lives. Young vulnerable lives. It's not rhetoric. It's not hyperbole. It's a fact," he said during a discussion with hospital and state health leaders.
The governor and hospital leaders said the hospital is a major recipient of NIH funding and that reductions have forced some programs to scale back. "What we have heard is that that funding isn't coming through in all instances," Healy said, adding that some colleges, universities and research programs in…
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