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FY18 health budget battle begins: House appropriators slate $1.1 billion increase for NIH while defunding ACA, Title X

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The House Subcommittee on Appropriations for Labor-HHS marked up the fiscal 2018 spending bill—voting 9-6 along party lines on legislation that would prohibit the use of any new discretionary funding in connection with the Affordable Care Act.

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