Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.
I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.
Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.
Unless you’re spending all your money on cancer research, you can always spend more on it. At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line. It’s plausible to me that the line should be where the Democrats rather than the Republicans want it, and it’s even plausible that Republicans are acting in bad faith. However, this article presents no evidence for either claim.
At some point, you have to draw a line and someone will accuse you of deliberately refusing to cure cancer no matter where you draw that line.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the $1T we spend on national security annually. Somehow, we’re always able to justify more than the year before.
But $2.8B over ten years on an effort to improve health care treatments for one of the most deadly maladies in the US? My god! That’s over 3% of our Ukraine military aid budget! We need to draw a line somewhere!
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states. Let everybody who has lost family or has family battling cancer know what they have done.
Need to be putting this on billboards in red states.
“The GOP just protected you from another vaccine”
Not this time. Cancer isn’t communicative and there is no one alive who has not known someone battling or lost from cancer. It’s not a personal failing of the individual and it doesn’t give a shit who you are or how you live. It just might be the first time that a Republican voter could tangibly see how the wealthy and Republicans look to keep them dead, rather than do something nonpartisan.
Fuck a “win for Joe.” They just blocked a win for humanity. We all know that in the end, you bet your ass the wealthy will have no problem getting their hands on this no matter the price or extremes they have to go to as soon as they are personally affected.
Seriously, buy ads on every type of public media display possible. It could read:
F#k a win for Joe!* Republicans in Congress just voted to let you and anyone you love die in the name of letting you and anyone you care about die from cancer!
Call your local representative and demand they put their partisanship aside, because I’m sick of seeing good people lose their lives to something that we now have the power to stop for the benefit of all of humanity!
I don’t know. Maybe throw out shit about how even beloved pets get cancer and die even sooner than we expect because of this shit. Maybe show a picture of a sickly dog shining down from a glowing halo. I’m just spit-balling here. You all get it!
Cancer isn’t communicative
No, but it IS environmental. And we’ve been flooding our air, sea, and soil with toxic waste for decades.
That makes us a Hippie Green Issue, so Republicans oppose it.
Why can’t DEMOCRATS reach across the Aisle to Deliver for the American People?
Why an American went to Cuba for cancer care
Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.
Really shows how ass backwards the US really is.
Cuba, a country that the US has tried to destroy for over 60 years now with economic sanctions, has better healthcare than the US, aka the richest nation on the planet.
There is no excuse for the state of healthcare in the US. We really have some evil, greedy people deciding to let people die so they can have more money.
Cuba has three sides of the coin: one for foreigners, another for citizens and finally for politicians.
Cuba has three sides of the coin
What?
