DANA BASH: You all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials. The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds at least the NIH. Given what youve said, will you at least pass that? And if not, arent you playing the same political games that Republicans are?
HARRY REID: Listen, Sen. Durbin explained that very well, and he did it here, did it on the floor earlier, as did Sen. Schumer. What right did they have to pick and choose what part of government is going to be funded? Its obvious whats going on here. You talk about reckless and irresponsible. Wow. What this is all about is Obamacare. They are obsessed. I dont know what other word I can use. Theyre obsessed with this Obamacare. Its working now and it will continue to work and people will love it more than they do now by far. So they have no right to pick and choose. BASH: But if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldnt you do it? REID: Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. This is to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means youre irresponsible and reckless BASH: Im just asking a question. . On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Interesting article from the Washington Post about how the shutdown is > impacting scientific research. Bluntly put if it lasts much longer the > effect is going to be castastrophic. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/shutdown-sequestration-cuts-zap-scientists-and-researchers/2013/10/02/bdfb0896-2ab6-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html > > > NIH trials turn away new patients as shutdown cuts zap scientists, > researchers > > Much of the governments sprawling scientific and technological machinery > has been turned off, and researchers and engineers fear that a prolonged > shutdown could imperil their projects and create lasting harm to U.S. > innovation. Sick people hoping to join clinical trials at the National > Institutes of Health are being turned away. > > Nearly three-fourths of NIH employees have been furloughed. Patients > already enrolled in NIH clinical trials will continue to receive care. If > the shutdown continues, it could affect about 200 people per week who, > under normal circumstances, would be admitted to new trials, said John T. > Burklow, an NIH spokesman. About 30 of those new patients would be > children, and about 10 would be children with cancer, he ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367543 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
