Barack Obama and Me
Some of you may have been reading this blog and think.. Hey, he really is a Hillary supporter. Well you know what I am, I am also a Barack Obama Supporter, I am a John Edwards supporter, Chris Dodd, if that Yeller dog over there is a Democrat, than I am a Yeller Dog supporter.
So here we stand on the delegate trail.
Last week on Tuesday I gave my support to Senator Obama. This came after several discussions with members of the Obama Campaign, and you guessed it our discussions centered on the war on cancer.
We were so in tune that I was given the opportunity to work on the Obama Heath Advisory Team/Committee and I jumped on the chance. It was a true honor to be asked and I intend on doing my best for the country and especially for the cancer patients that I advocate for.
This committee has input into forming the Democratic Party’s Platform and I may be calling upon you to show your support for the War On Cancer by contacting the Obama Campaign and the democratic party, standby and I’ll let you know.
This Saturday I have a statewide delegate meeting and in the evening there is a major fundraising dinner for the Florida Democratic Party. Last year Nancy Pelosi was the key note speaker. There is a lot of buzz who will be there this year.
You will just have to follow the blog to find out more. Or better yet subscribe to the blog it is free!!
Peace
Dearest Barry,
I trust YOU 150% but before knowing you and your passion and sincerity, I became very cynical. So here goes - - -First, I hope the war on cancer makes more sense than the war on drugs which continues to drag on with no end in sight. I wonder if you need a different slogan.
Secondly, I believe there is a "cancer industry" that includes pharmaceutical companies, researchers, hospitals, politicians and so much more. A cure for cancer would be an economic disaster that cannot and will not be allowed. OK, call me a nut job or a conspiracy theorist or just a cynic but that's my 2 cents.
With love, Barbara
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Thanks for your confidence. IMHO the “war on drugs” is much different to what some call “war on cancer”
The cancer industry as you refer to it is what some call the free market forces.
“Support business and the market will solve the problem.”
When it comes to cancer, IMHO that is crap. That is why I believe that Federal Funding outside the market place needs to play the biggest role in the war on cancer. When you don’t cure cancer and in a cynical view, you continue treatments to make big profits until that patient is lost. If you have not cured it, then you have a renewable resource, another patient with the same affliction. Now that is cynical and why the private sector is not positioned or equipped to win the war on cancer. We need to do what is after all civilized, have good health care that improves the lives of those unfortunate enough to be sick.
My sister told me about someone she heard on one of those free market forces. “Well if the company gives you a car as a benefit, they give you what is appropriate for the task. If you want a different car then you can opt to buy one. The same should hold true for health care”
I say “what the heck! I just don’t want to be sick, and if I get sick I want the best health care that is available.” I want the same for everyone. It is the right and civilized thing to have, the best health care that is available. The fact that people go bankrupt in America because of cancer or any other illness is a national disgrace. The fact they die because they are not covered, or should I say because they are denied care is a national disgrace.
There is a problem with letting the free market dictate the scientific discovery when it comes to health care and cancer. As an example more people use Viagra than those that need chemotherapy or other cures/treatments for cancer. In other words where do your stockholders want your scientific research? Where are the profits? Now you can call me cynical.
Economically speaking curing cancer keeps people living, paying taxes, creating wealth, growing families. Okay, now you can call me a dreamer, naive even. Call me what ever you want, but do the right thing and letting people suffer, humans, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends is not the right thing to do. Letting the funding at the NIH and NCI be cut for the first time in over 30 years is not the right thing to do. Less funding, means less trails, means less patients in trials, means less discovery means more suffering and more death.
My view is that the NIH and the NCI should do what they were founded to do, serve the people of this country with scientific discovery. Out of that discovery comes a healthier and more productive population. Breaking the cycle of the cancer industry is the right thing to do. The people can make it happen; we need just enough of them to have the will to change the things as they are.
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