In this essay, I review Qualitative Methods in Health Research, a document sponsored by three offices of the U. S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The document has the purpose of educating qualitative researchers on how to fit proposals based on qualitative approaches to NIH requirements for funding. I show that the NIH document provides helpful guidelines, and I make suggestions of my own.I concluded that qualitative researchers can challenge NIH and other funding agencies internationally about the nature of science and press for modifications of assumptions about what constitutes fundable research proposals. Creative and constructive dialogue may open funding streams to researchers whose questions lead to the use of qualitative approaches, both within the U.S. and internationally.