• $19 billion, including $2 billion in discretionary funds and $17 billion for investments and incentives through Medicare and Medicaid to ensure widespread adoption and use of interoperable health information technology (IT).
  
  
• $24.7 billion to subsidize COBRA health insurance premiums — at a level of 65 percent, for nine months — for workers who have lost their jobs.
  
  
• $10 billion to the National Institute of Health (NIH), including $8.2 billion for NIH research to conduct biomedical research in areas such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stem cells, $500 million for NIH buildings, $1.3 billion for NIH to renovate university research facilities and to help them compete for biomedical research grants.
  
  
• $1.1 billion for comparative effectiveness research to evaluate the relative effectiveness of different health care services and treatment options.
  
  
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology (HIT) grants, training, infrastructure, dissemination of best practices, telemedicine, HIT clinical education.
  
  
• $50 million for pandemic flu/BARDA.
  
  
• $1 billion for prevention and wellness programs to fight preventable diseases and conditions with evidence-based strategies, including $300 million for CDC’s immunization program, $650 million for evidence-based clinical and community-based prevention and wellness strategies, and $50 million for States to implement healthcare-associated infections reduction strategies.

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