I think, has really been the great leader on this one.
it seems to me that we ought to be funding NIH a lot more aggressively than we are.
last year President Obama vowed to find, quote, "a cure for cancer in our time."
I am of the opinion that we need to do more at NIH.
As I've often pointed out, zero-to-one is an infinite increase.
That could be phenomenal.
Do we have to do anything legislatively, Dr. Collins?
We wanted to keep people employed.
I mean, from prevention we know what smoking leads to, and all the diseases it leads to, and the cost to society.
Let us work together. Let us find out. That doesn't sound--this shouldn't be. It should be higher.
I look at a jobs bill as an investment.