... but we could have found the cure for cancer - many different cancers - for way less cost. I blame our generation and I'm a baby boomer, for letting this misdirection of priorities happen on our watch. The cure(s) for cancer(s) will be found, and it's going to happen soon. But sadly it will be with no thanks to us.
Both of my parents died of the Big C, and 3 of my 4 grandparents also died of it. It's an awful horrible disease, but it could have been beaten if the country's priorities dictated it. We looked the other way while the country's priorities to got twisted, when we could have made a difference.
Baby boomers protested the war in Vietnam and it ended. We protested civil rights and women's rights, but we never gave a shit about death by cancer. Too many for-profit hospitals and medical clinics have figured out how to rake in profits from cancer treatments. That's why it isn't a priority in our lifetime.
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