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Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the federal subsidies pay 65% of the cost of COBRA premiums. Originally, the subsidy was to expire after nine months and unemployed families would have seen their health care premiums spike on average from $389 to $1,111 per month. This tripling of cost could have caused many families to drop their health care coverage just as Congress is on the cusp of passing the most far-reaching health care reform legislation in history. (See the Cheapskate blogger on COBRA...
Harvard researchers have received over $18 million in grant awards from federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) as of the beginning of September. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...ARRA, or the stimulus bill, provided the National Institute of Health (NIH) with $10.4 billion to fund two-year research projects and Harvard has been granted funding for 65 research proposals, the majority of which deal with health care and medical research...
According to Kevin Casey, the associate vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, the Univeristy sent approximately 600 proposals to federal agencies participating in ARRA, including the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy, among others...
...Harvard’s 66 ARRA research grants, 45 are affiliated with Harvard Medical School...