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New NIH director Bernadine Healy received copious condolences last month from members of a House appropriations subcommittee for the "substantial pay cut" that she was taking to come to Washington. Indeed, her financial disclosure statement reveals that she earned $251,000 last year in salary as director of the research institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, along with $74,000 for serving on four corporate boards. As NIH director, she will earn $128,300 this year. However, the clinic's tax records also show that Healy's husband, cardiothoracic surgeon Floyd Loop, is paid an annual salary of $829,000 as the clinic's chief executive officer, along with $87,000 in health benefits. Healy has said that the couple will maintain a commuting marriage while she serves as NIH director and he ...
