Quote of the Day
By Tom Shoop | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | 08:46 PM
By Tom Shoop | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | 08:46 PM
"You know when you're a kid and you're growing up and you hear there'll be a cure for this and a cure for that, and who's in charge of that? You would think with the possibilities especially now we have, with all the technology, ... and the $100 billion that government and the private sector put into this stuff every year, you'd think that there'd be a Department of Cures, a Secretary of Cures. But there isn't."
Actor and Parkinson's research advocate Michael J. Fox in an appearance at a conference on philanthropy sponsored by Slate.
Comments
In response to Allan E.
Except for all those who die because there are none of the cures that were predicted or promised.
In general:
It is amazing the amount of money we donate, pay and grant for health care and health research. And yet the biggest increases in life expectancy over the past 200 years came from making sure people have clean food and water and that people wash their hands.
Dave B | Thursday, November 01, 2007 | 04:59 PMMost of us grow up and live in the real world - eventually.
Allan E | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 10:55 AMI think there's a National Cures Agency within the Department of Peace.
Ted Bean | Monday, October 29, 2007 | 06:39 PMABOUT THIS BLOG
Government Executive Editor Tom Shoop takes a look at news and events affecting the federal bureaucracy, from the perspective of a longtime observer of government.
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