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25th Anniversary Keynote Address
25th Anniversary Keynote Address
Pages 108-113
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Bill Clinton. I want to thank the Institute of Medicine not only for inviting me here for this special occasion, but also for lending our administration a team of truly remarkable health care leaders from Phil Lee to Harold Varmus, from Shirley Chater to David Kessler, from Ruth Kirschstein to Claude Lenfant, and from Bruce VIadeck to Jo Ivey Boufford.
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That's why, at the Department of Health and Human Services, we recruited the most brilliant scientific minds in the country to lead our national effort leaders like Phil Lee, Harold Varmus, Bill Paul, Rick Klausner, Francis Collins, and Zack Hall. That's why the president created the National Science and Technology Council to give us an integrated research and development budget that focuses on key national goals.
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We must invest in all the science that holds the potential to prevent disease and help Americans to live healthier lives-from environmental research to occupational research to behavioral research. Second, we must look beyond the bottom line of profits to the bottom line of progress.
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David Nathan, a group of experts will ask some fundamental questions about how we can protect the critical role the "translational role" of clinical research. We need to know how we can reinforce the link between the laboratory of basic science and the living rooms of our citizens and how we can ensure that the best science in the world ultimately pays off for all Americans.
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· When they ask us to tear a big loophole in the nursing home standards that the IOM helped create and allow us to go back to the days when citizens in nursing homes went without vital protections that's not progress. · When they try to slash Head Start, Earned Income Tax Credits, student loans, and other engines that help move people out of poverty and toward healthier lives that's not progress.
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Did we keep our historical promises to our most vulnerable citizens? Did we maintain our strong commitment our international commitment-to basic science and clinical research?
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