Re: The Government should pay for cures

[WILL JOHNSTON <johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raylin,
I think you are being a little unfair to our latest George. This centuy is
still right new - one and three quarters or two and three quarters
years -depending upon how one counts centuries - isn't really enough time to
find a whole bunch of cures. He sure does seem to be getting off to a poor
start.

WILL



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rayilyn Brown" <RayilynLee@xxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: The Government should pay for cures


> How about the federal government waging an all-out war on disease for
cures?
> Wouldn't that be the most cost-effective course in the long run?  Never
mind
> the reduction in suffering.  How many cures have there been in this
century -
> polio, TB (treatable)vaccines for childhood diseases derived from fetal
cell
> research.??? Jerry Lewis has been raising$ for Muscular Dystrophy for over
a
> half century now.  Don't people want cures NOW THAT THEY MAY BE POSSIBLE?
>
> Apparently  the Bush Administration is pushing federal funding for medical
> care for fetuses in a sneaky attempt to nulllify Roe v. Wade.  So what is
> wrong with helping the living?
>
> We all have very little to say about where our tax money goes and it
doesn't
> please everyone.  Also, in 1965 on a $3600 yearly teacher's salary I was
able
> to actually pay for my surgery.   No one can do that today.  Something is
> wrong here.
>
> rayilyn
>
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