Cutting the NIH-The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

David M Cutler; Edward Glaeser

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.2791

Cutting the NIH-The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

JAMA Health Forum. 2025 May 2;6(5):e252791. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.2791.

Authors

David M Cutler^{1

2}, Edward Glaeser¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Kennedy School of Government and T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PMID: 40440048
DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.2791

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Plain language summary

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for changes to Trump administration policies.