Sometimes I wonder if some of our elected officials ever learned basic tactfulness or basic manners. According to today's Washington Times, Arlen Specter stated today on CBS's "Face the Nation, that he was disillusioned with Republican healtcare priorities and that if those priorities had been different, Jack Kemp would still be alive today. There are not words to express how furious I am at this comment.
Arlen Specter was first elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1980. That was almost thirty years ago. You mean to tell me that in that thirty years he has never exerted enough influence to move the Republican party healthcare priorities closer to his own. What has he been doing for that thirty years? Do we really think he needs six more to continue doing it?
He is blaming the Republicans for not following Richard Nixon's strategy of a 'war on cancer' in 1970--that would have cured Jack Kemp. The government does not save lives. They have not in their history saved lives. Private medical research (sometimes funded (but not always) by the government saves lives. Medical and pharmaceutical companies in search of profits (that evil word) do research and find cures for diseases. These drugs and cures are studied by the FDA and approved or disapproved. The process is long and costly and that is the reason why drugs cost so much in this country. If medicine is socialized or the government controls all profits from research, there will be no incentive to find cures for diseases. The Democrat plan for national health care will end medical research as we currently know it. Then we will see more deaths from cancer and other diseases--not less.
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