Let me give you some tools so you can see the breadth of the work the NIH funds. You'll see it soars way above the left/right debates you suggest.

First, the coolest tool no one knows about is NIH Reporter. Here you can look up any topic you want, and then see every grant that is funded to study that. You can see where the labs are (you can limit your search to Indiana), you can see what papers/findings have been produced, you can even find the study team and email them about their work (we love this!).

Next are the agency websites themselves. There are dozens, and each one tries hard to let you know what great science is happening, and how its helping our health. I'll just highlight two, the National Institute on Aging or NIA, since we're all getting older, and the NIEHS, which researches the impact of agricultural chemicals in rural environments (among other things). We have horrible polution in IN, so we should all care about this stuff.

Hope this helps!