Create the UHP Trust Fund

Months 0–12 · Treasury (managing trustee), UHADiscuss this step

National Institutes of Health

continues—Federal programs

Today

The largest public funder of biomedical research.

Under the plan

Continues unchanged in the ledger. Optional increase to offset lower pharmaceutical R&D incentives (not costed).

Trade-off

Holding NIH flat isolates the coverage change; raising it would partly offset lost private R&D at a public cost.

Money