Obama Budget Designates Billions For Medical Research, Food Safety
(Washington, DC) -- President Obama's proposed fiscal 2011 budget adds one-billion-dollars to the National Institutes of Health research allocation. The total NIH budget of 32-billion would fund research in areas like genomics, healthcare reform, AIDS and autism. The President's budget blueprint also calls for more than 25-billion dollars to prop up the state-federal Medicaid health insurance program for the poor over a six-month period. Government efforts aimed at food safety would get one-point-four-billion dollars. Total spending for the State Department's global health, hunger and food security efforts would go from nearly eight-billion dollars in 2010 to eight-point-five-billion in 2011. As the President promised last year, his fiscal 2011 budget includes 222-million dollars for autism research. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates one in every 110 children in the U.S. is diagnosed with this developmental disorder, which impairs certain types of behavior. |