Senate Appropriations Bill Raises NIH Funding, Slashes CMS Spending

The Senate Appropriations health subcommittee approved a fiscal 2016 HHS spending bill that raises NIH funding by $2 billion and cuts CMS by $1.15 billion while defunding the Affordable Care Act Tuesday (June 23), though subcommittee ranking Democrat Patty Murray (WA) said the partisan, sequester level bill has no chance of becoming law and urged lawmakers to reach a bipartisan budget deal like lawmakers did in 2013. Appropriations health subcommittee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) touted raising the National Institutes of...