Posted on 02/10/2009 7:35:06 PM PST by Shethink13
Patrick Swayze is hoping to kickstart the cancer fight in Congress.
The stricken star has penned a letter to legislators, pleading with them to increase funding for research into the disease—including helping find a cure for his own pancreatic cancer.
"With Congress about to decide how much money to include for medical research as part of the economic stimulus package, the time has come to take my personal fight to a larger stage," Swayze wrote in an open letter published in Sunday's Washington Post.
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It openly discourages research for new cures as too costly.
And by the way Pat, how old are you now? Getting up there in years? It might not be cost effective to treat you. Oh, but it won’t effect you, only the “little” people.
Soon he will find that it “isn’t worth it” for him to get treatment for such an ailment.
Now have some OxyContin and Ativan...
I agree with Patrick. We should flip the $330 million for STD research and use it for cancer research.
I changed my tagline. What do you think? LOL
I was considering a tagline: Three weeks in office and still no cure for cancer..........
Yet another hollyweird actor pushing a selfish agenda only when cancer is contracted. Where was he before he contracted cancer? I’ve lost two family members to cancer - I don’t have a bully pulpit to hit congress over the head with.
No kidding. Under the stimulus bill, he would get no treatment as the prognosis stinks. 5 year survival of less than 5%. He would get a bottle of Advil and a bottle of Scotch from his insurance company.
Patrick Swayze spoke to Congress today.
“I am urging you to do more to help cancer patients. As we all know, the best cures don’t come from Washington, DC. I urge you to cut the capital gains tax and ease up on the time it takes to approve drugs so that whoever makes advances in the fight against cancer will make a ton of money. If Congress had done that many years ago, there might be more effective treatments for my condition.”
“Now I understand that many of the Federal health agencies are involved in the fight against cancer. I would urge them to direct the money toward the types of cancer that are the most common. Specifically, lung, breast, colon, and prostate cancer. Pancreatic cancer is awful, but it’s not as common, so I’d make that a lower priority. This isn’t about me, but how we can get the most bang for the buck.”
And then I woke up...
Cancer is a terrible way to go. After the Porkulus passes only congresscritters and other high and mighty members of the ruling no-class will be eligible for treatment.
The rest of us subjects will be eligible for hospice care, maximum two weeks.
Life is a sexually transmitted conditon that is always fatal. It should be fatal sooner rather than later for those who do not bow down to The 0.
I almost forgot:
AIDS patients will get full treatment so that is probably a better disease to contract than cancer.
Of course the way one contracts it is..., oh never mind.
No, he doesn't have lung cancer but the detriments of smoking go beyond that, to screwing up your blood circulation to inhibiting absorption of nutrients from food. It contributes in many ways to damage your health.
That he's not doing all he can to help himself and is running to politicians to get funding is....well, typical.
AIDs in the in disease now.
Sorry, Patrick. Under porkulus you need to be more accepting of your illness and know when your time is up.
Does cancer research create a lot of jobs for poor minorities and women? Only if you are experimenting ON them. No stimulus for rich white and Asian researchers.
It sounds like a perfectly reasonable and even conservative statement. Should he have been a vocal cancer fighter sooner? As Burton Gilliam says on Dallas TV: “I don’t care how you get here, just get here!”
Actually, the logic from the new stim package will go like this:
Panc. Cancer @ 5% Survival Rate = (Cost of treatment x20)per one life saved = “YOU LOSE, PAT. Sorry, had to draw that line somewhere!” Play again?
Research to raise the survival rate won’t happen, so anyone else with Panc. Cancer loses too.
I’m sorry for Swayze and his misfortune; the bad thing about pancreatic cancer is that by the time it’s diagnosed, it’s progressed so far that there’s little chance of recovery.
I have an acquaintance who’s researched cancer for the past 25 years and has discovered some amazing facts about it, one of which is (in his words), “All of the research shows that any kind of cancer dies in the presence of any kind of sulfur.”
So I take MSM daily just as a preventive measure, along with several other supplements.
Sorry for Patrick's situation; and sorry for any of us; who will be victims of Obama'care'. . .
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