This new bill would add $9 billion for medical research. Here are 5 reasons critics are terrified.

Last week, the House passed a bill in a 344-77 vote, an overwhelming consensus at a time when relations in Congress are mostly fractured. The bipartisan effort, known as the 21st Century Cures Act, infuses medical research with $8.75 billion over five years and purports to overhaul drug development and innovation to get lifesaving cures to people who need them faster. Jerry Avorn, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is quoted.

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