Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.

Also, the thousands of small businesses that are funded by the sbir program. Most people don't realize that the NIH gives grants to small tech businesses that are awesome at getting advances in health and medicine.

And the list goes on and on. If you don’t think this affects you, think again. End.

Injury prevention, cardiac stents and transplants, immunosuppressive drugs, lifestyle changing, effects of social media on mental health, dental care, nursing research…(4/)

-NIH research cures rare disease that arise from pesticides used on Wisconsin farms
-NIH research helps understand the health effects of floods, fires, and hurricanes
-not to mention the vaccine preventable diseases that are prevented due to NIH funding, cancer cures, genetic diseases, (3/)

-A $1 million NIH grant brings in an additional $300-500 to your state for jobs
-NIH funded research brought us weight loss drugs that now most of the Midwest and South (Trump states) get to use
-NIH funded research bring us closer to ending Alzheimer’s, which affects rural folks (2/)