Posted on 09/14/2007 10:00:04 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
Last week the American Cancer Society announced it will no longer run ads about the dangers of smoking and other cancer-causing behaviors and the benefits of regular screenings. Instead, the Society will devote this year's entire advertising budget to a campaign for universal health coverage.
. . . International comparisons establish that the current method of financing health care in the U.S. is not a bigger killer than tobacco [as the American Cancer Society suggests]. What is deadly are delays in treatment and lack of access to the most effective drugs, proglems encountered by some uninsured cancer patients in the U.S. but by a far larger proportion of cancer patients in the U.K. and Europe. Cancer patients do welll in a few small countries with national health insurance, such as Sweden and Finland, but they do better in the U.S. than anywhere else on the globe.
With a track record like that, the American Cancer Society should continue its lifesaving messages about prevention and screening instead of switching to a political agenda. The goal should be to ensure that all cancer patients receive the timely care our current system provides, not to radically overhaul the system.
I haven’t given to the Cancer Society in years. I am convinced that finding a cure for cancer is not in their best interest. I wonder how much money has been spent on this “war on cancer” and there’s very little results.
S C R A T C H
That sound you just heard was me removing the ACS from my charitable donations list.
A letter to them expressing my disgust and displeasure has been dispatched.
Looks like they want to be sure their doctor friends get paid.
“Well I have made my last donation to the American Cancer Society. Instead of working for a cure, they are supporting the spread of the social cancer called socialism.”
I second that emotion.
Is that so bad?
Seems to me many or most cancer patients let doctors cut off pieces and/or inject them with poisons and/or radiate them, and for what?
They end up dying in a few painful years anyway.
Might as well let nature take its course from the get-go.
Try telling my grand daughter, (in her late teens), who is a lymphoma survivor.
I just called them and lodged my opinion (stinking socialism) at the following number: 1-800-ACS-2345.
Be polite, ‘cause ya catch more flies with honey.
Every time he goes to the doctor they keep telling him they are surprised he's still around. The only reason he beat the odds is that he was diagnosed and TREATED very early.
My kids were very young when he was diagnosed. At 13 and 17, they've been blessed with experiencing the special love and attention that a doting grandpa can give - and they know they're richer for it. Had "nature took its course" they would only "know" him second hand through stories and pictures.
I understand some provinces in Canada are like Cuba and North Korea. They don't permit private health care.
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