Protecting funding for the National Institute of Health

Please take a minute to tell Congress to protect funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives. The billion and a half dollars in proposed cuts would be a huge loss for all of 1199SEIU’s training hospitals.

The House, Senate and President Obama are currently negotiating a spending bill. It is vitally important that they hear from you now to protect these funds.

The House passed H.R. 1 which includes a $1.6 billion cut to NIH for this year which would be detrimental to medical research and devastate our academic medical centers and teaching hospitals.

Please take a minute to reach out to your local Congress member to tell them to support funding for the NIH. The vote is likely to take place next week so please take a minute and send a letter of support.

We must all take action now