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Protect funding for the Food & Drug Administration & National Institutes of Health!

 

When Congress returns to work for the lame duck session, they must act quickly to protect the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) from funding cuts that would paralyze the development of treatments for patients with rare diseases. Both the NIH and the FDA are each at risk of an 8% budget cut, slowing progress toward developments of new treatments and cures.

 

The potential automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, scheduled to take effect in January 2013, will be devastating for patients as well as the future U.S. leadership of research and development. Sequestration would slash federal investments in critical health, scientific, medical and biological research aimed at discovering treatments, moving safe and effective new medicines to market, and creating the innovations to grow our economy.

 

Urge your lawmaker to find a solution that protects rare disease research funding and ensures adequate FDA funding for review and approval of lifesaving treatments.

 

Click here to take action and send a letter to your lawmaker TODAY!

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WEBCAST TONIGHT

Wednesday, November 14th

 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET

TOPIC: Accessing Health Care Insurance with a Disability

 

 

MEDICARE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 

Here you will find Questions and Answers from the open enrollment webinar directed to Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities.