Most diseases are completely avoidable. Influenza? Avoid others. Heart disease? Eat right and exercise. Lung cancer? Don't smoke or breath asbestos. The common cold? Wash your hands.
Don't want cholera? You can completely avoid it by not drinking tainted water.
Don't want tetanus? Completely avoid it by avoiding deep punctures.
I keep on seeing this "completely avoidable" talking point, but it's meaningless. There isn't a communicable disease on the planet that isn't completely avoidable.
“I hope that the public realizes that having a loud voice doen’t mean it is correct in it’s pleadings”
I have come to the unhappy realization that most of the public is EXACTly that stupid. They have been fed a constant barrage of “if it feels good do it” for so many years, they suck it up like kitties in milk. Want sex?—Have the government pay for abortions, hospice, AIDS research, etc. Eat yourself to obesity? Make the government pay for bariatric surgery. Use drugs? Let the government pay for those, too and needles exchanges of course. Want a superbaby to call your own? Make the government pay for EMBRYONIC stem cell research. Our only hope is that ther are enough Sarah Palins out there to make some people realize the folly of the path that is being followed.
I agree with you. Being a type 1 diabetic for what seems like forever it is appalling to me that they spend less on thses dieases combined than they do for a diease that under most circumstances isn’t that easily transmitted and in most cases is based on behavior and not because you were just the unlucky one. I personlly think if some of this money had gone to to other dieases like these that we might hav much better treatments and possibly cures for some.