What does the proposal cut to NIH funding mean in practical terms, I guess, for patients being treated right now?

Well, since the early 70s, pretty much every year we've had stable to slight increases in in the funding to the National Cancer Institute.

Hasn't kept up with inflation, but we've had a strong federal investment in this research.

If we have the cut that's been proposed in the presidential budget of about 12% to the NIH, this would stall that progress.

It would immediately, in the short term, stall the clinical trials that are going on.

So there would be less treatment options for patients who have already had all of the approved or recognized treatments for their cancer.

And they're looking for newer treatments, the hope of a clinical trial that could help them and all of those who follow them.

Speaking of risks, just to pile on even more here to be concerned about, what areas of cancer research are probably most at risk if this federal funding is reduced?

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And so we said, we'll give out five $1,000 grants.

We will work with you, teach you how to write a grant application.

We will select.

And then you have to report back and it just is tell us what you would do with this thousand dollars to promote breast cancer awareness we then added cervical cancer in africa because that it made sense to combine the two um what you would do to promote it and so they got grant writing training um they had the conduct and reporting of their project and then they got confidence they could apply for grants.

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Tell us why this is such a Huge issue for people especially who are relying on Medicaid.

Starting January 1st next year, 2027, for those who have been on Medicaid expansion, there will be a work requirement of 80 hours per month.

And so that group would be aged 19 to 64 years.

without young children under the age of 19.

There's about 1.24 million Wisconsin residents right now who are covered by Medicaid, a lot of them in the Milwaukee area.

So this could impact quite a few people.

And what's different about this is with the work requirement, you will have to report not just once a year, but twice a year, and not just that you have a diagnosis of some kind of illness.

If you've got several patients that are undergoing treatment who now require this extra work to be reported to Medicaid, how are you going to keep up?