1) Ballooning health care costs are not due to providing emergency hospital care for undocumented immigrants
2) Either suggesting that hospitals should refuse emergency care, or refusing reimbursement to hospitals providing emergency care, solves nothing and is unethical

It's important to emphasize that I know almost nothing about money and had no trouble figuring this out.

Option 2: We treat everyone but hospitals are only reimbursed if the patient was a US citizen. The hospitals eat the costs, so either a) countless hospitals close, or more likely b) costs increase to offset those losses...and who ends up paying then?

Option 1 in the Vice President's Ideal World: We tell them to provide their insurance paperwork, and if they do not have said paperwork, have security escort them out to the door where they presumably die in the parking lot.

This is a clear contrast from prior statements which explicitly addressed these areas: www.nih.gov/sites/defaul...

Space was allocated to underscore the following priorities instead:
Reproducibility
"Real world" data sources
Artificial Intelligence
Autism (etiology only)
"Alternative Testing Models"
The harms of treating "gender dysphoria"

I dont see a future to biomedical research in this 'strategy.'

This is so unbelievably kind. It was so lovely speaking with you and your encouragement means so much!!!

Today’s NCI announcement is akin to Thanos snapping his fingers and wiping out half of American scientific workforce. Except that the wiping out part will take much longer to play out.