[reaganaut1]

Research on diseases that does not affect all races equally is politically incorrect.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

The poor should kick in and help.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise.”

Drivel.

[Gen.Blather]

The problem as I see it is that university and government scientists are driven to seek funding, not solutions. I’m convinced that if cancer research had no government grants it would have gone the way of Polio. Maybe private sponsorship will give us better results.

[ronnie raygun]

The billionaires they want to expose with a sprinkle of "WHITE" added to spice up the race card are the conservative rich white old men, not any of the democrat rich old white men and women, no no no! they are for the people (I SPIT UP IN MY MOUTH)

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, I recall a campaign to eliminate sickle cell anemia...

[ilovesarah2012]

We obviously need more money for research for HIV/AIDS and sickle cell anemia.

There are a lot of rich black people. Let them throw some money in. How about Oprah?

richest black people in america

http://www.therichest.com/tag/richest-black-people-in-america/

[bert]

This is a basic Darwinian process........ survival of the fittest.

Being a minority with special needs means those needs can not be met because limited resources are expended for the greater good.

The whole point of the Obama presidency was to destroy the natural order.

[tomkat]

.. target illnesses that predominantly afflict white people ..

Good !

Sans whitey, this world devolves to North Korea in a hurry .. and stays there.

[exDemMom]

I think this article is meant to fan the fires of racism, and is not a real commentary on the state of research. Scientific research has always been funded by a mixture of public and private financing.

In my experience, private donors tend to give for specific disease research. But no one forces scientists to take money for a specific kind of research—they look for the donors funding the research they like to do, and ask for the money from them.

[cuban leaf]

And everything is about breast cancer, rather than prostate cancer. I’ve never seen a blue ribbon for a prostate cancer awareness run...

It is the job of news outlets to not merely report the news, but give it an angle that makes it interesting. It’s what the NYT is doing here. They are attempting to create a story with the race baiting and culture war. But the real story is a paragraph’s worth. It’s not really controversial and won’t sell papers.

[cripplecreek]

[grania]

A problem with Obamcare is that everyone's going to get government-approved solutions. There's no incentive to discover alternative solutions that are expensive to develop and probably won't make it to the approved list. There's also no incentive to come up with cheap or natural solutions when you've got "it's covered".

The only logical result will be billionaires figuring out how to get better care...for billionaires.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise.

Because historically, so many cures have been discovered by government agencies, unlike private ones. If I can think of an example, I'll post it.

[P.O.E.]

Science for CENTURIES was a private enterprise. Only the rich could afford the time and resources to noodle around with stuff.

[The Working Man]

If I remember correctly wasn’t Edison’s Laboratory and research center a ‘Private’ entity and so was Bell Labs, Westinghouse and others?

Really now, it’s only been since NASA came on the scene that the Government got it’s grubby fingers into the research ‘Pie’ in earnest. And now today private industry and the Universities look first to government to fund their research.

[Teacher317]

So they want less private research done... how long before they make it illegal?
And they want to demand that private research be done in accordance with their PC (read: racist) agenda, rather than the agenda of those who are putting up the money... how long before all research must be done after filing tons of red tape with useless in-house EEOC-type officials?

This is getting so tiresome that I'm almost eager for the shooting to start.

[PapaBear3625]

Private people will generally fund research into diseases that have hit their family members and friends. They will want RESULTS, preferably in their lifetimes.

And they will primarily give funding to the people who they think are most likely to produce results, without regard for "diversity" or affirmative action.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Yet another irony that the left decries Republicans cutting research dollars, then cuts real research even deeper in the name of subsidizing faux science.

[G Larry]

Relax!
WIth Obamacare, only officials in the Federal Gov’t will have access to state of the art medical care.

The rest of you peasants have a “duty to die”, lest you deplete the coffers of the vote buying, entitlement programs.

[GailA]

DUH only a few diseases are race centric. My Endo’s office is full of all races. Fibromyalgia-FMS, MD, MS, LGD no know color, nor doses the Big C cancer. FMS is symptom treated, and the drugs make it worse as they have the same side effects as the disease.

OA/OP hits all races too. Diabetes, thyroid issues, digestive issues, you name it any race could have it. No one is immune from GERD/IBS either.

Breast cancer can come down the Male line. My 2 Aunts married 2 brothers, both their daughters have the genetic link from their dad’s side. And some of their daughters have it to, to pass on to their daughters.

Orphan diseases like FMS are not being well researched, 1-2% of population have it 80% are women, most are also Hypothyroid. So add GENDER to that idiot article.

Damaged Care Break Down of Health Care
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/02/health/health052102.htm

First Do No Harm
http://www.naturalhealthstrategies.com/ketogenic-diet-movie.html