{"id":6321,"date":"2017-03-30T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:39:54","slug":"tom-price-defends-proposed-cuts-at-nih-citing-indirect-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6321","title":{"rendered":"Tom Price defends proposed cuts at NIH, citing \u2018indirect\u2019 expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lev Facher for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday defended the Trump administration\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/28\/budget-nih-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed cuts to medical research<\/a>, saying that the National Institutes of Health budget is plagued by unnecessary expenses. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/29\/tom-price-nih-budget\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8sB64y6rSnXJejxFoKjVDn1kT3JASrk5dWnL2plR1A2NKGUh2yNhm9bG8uiyr5paOF0pXzj5PpFD2K43Rk_QFO0tJU-Q&amp;_hsmi=49566186\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lev Facher for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday defended the Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}