Posted on 09/26/2016 9:38:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Former Jacksonville Jaguars QB David Garrard has Crohn’s Disease. He’s raised money for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America ($180,000 in one year), has visited children with the disease, and recently set up his own foundation to educate the public and assist fellow-sufferers.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation, now fifteen years old, distributes over $83 million each year to fund research on Parkinson’s Disease and increase public awareness.
Celebrities with serious diseases, simply by publicizing the fact, have saved lives by calling attention to the illness. There was a spike in testing for the BRACA 1 and 2 gene mutations associated with breast cancer after Angelina Jolie announced that she had the mutant gene and had undergone a double mastectomy.
In 1998, Hillary Clinton had a blood clot, a deep vein thrombosis, or venous thromboembolism (VTE). But the First Lady did not come forward with the information. Even staffers were told only that she had a sprained ankle. Hillary was eyeing Pat Moynihan’s Senate seat, and apparently felt that discussing the embolism would not help her campaign. In the fall of 2007, she changed her mind. Running for the nomination against Barack Obama and John Edwards, whose wife Elizabeth suffered from metastatic breast cancer, Hillary evidently decided that mentioning the health scare from nine years earlier might make her seem a little more sympathetic. So she confided the secret to a NY Daily News reporter.
But then she dropped the issue. Just as she had done nothing as First Lady or as a senator, she did nothing as Secretary of State and a member of the Obama Cabinet to increase public awareness of VTE.
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Good thing I read that. I was thinking this was going to be another woman’s issue thing.
The clintoons “Foundation’ only pay out around 6% of their revenue. Shouldn’t all Non-profit companies follow the same rules of Obama care that 85% of revenue has to be spent on claims?
Other first ladies have championed breast cancer and alcoholism when they were battling those issues.
Hitlery is all about the lie.
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