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How much funding NIH receives is only part of the issue. How that money is used also is an important consideration.

“The rising cost of healthcare will be one of Obama’s many challenges and personalized medicine is a bold new approach to improving healthcare while lowering costs; Obama understands this,” Personalized Medicine Coalition Public Policy Director Amy Miller told GWDN in an e-mail.

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I posted this a while back Big:

"The funding question, particularly for the National Institutes of Health, will be the most pressing. President-elect Obama will arrive to the Oval Office in the midst of a financial crisis, and will be confronted with a 2009 federal budget that has yet to be agreed upon.

NIH "has been historically challenged, regardless of the funding amounts, with doing more than just basic biomedical research,” Genetic Alliance President and CEO Sharon Terry told GenomeWeb Daily News on Thursday.

Terry also thinks that the Chicago politician’s “integrated vision for a modern, evidence-based and effective health care delivery system … can only mean positive things for personalized medicine products and services.”

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