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"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.
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I think there's a National Cures Agency within the Department of Peace.
Ted Bean Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 6:39 PMMost of us grow up and live in the real world - eventually.
Allan E Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:55 AMIn 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 Posted Thursday, November 1, 2007 4:59 PM