Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.
I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.
Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.
Fuck Republicans, Congress and everything in between
Congress: Go Team-Cancer!
The GOP should be banned by decree and being conservative should be illegal.
That would not be democratic. It would be the exact same thing the GOP wants to do. Left branded totalitarianism would still be totalitarianism.
Between left-branded totalitarianism and GOP I choose left-branded totalitarianism. An eye for an eye.
A fan of the USSR I see…
Totalitarianism is bad, period. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It would not be any better in the long run.You know what? Don’t give a shit at this point. I’m tired of conservative and right-wing stooges fucking everything up, and I think it’s time we give them their own medicine. Ban their medias, ban their parties and if they dare lift a finger send the whole fucking National Guard against them.
Oh I’m dead tired of it too, I can assure you, but banning a party is not an actionable solution; heavy regulation for polititians and political parties is:
in terms of the donations they can and can’t receive, the behaviour they need not to engage in, requiring a perfectly clean record (that includes corruption as well) and so on. Decisions should be backed by science and not ideology, religious discourse that isn’t about inclusion should be banned. Oh and no more lobbying for crying out loud.Hopefully the new supreme court reform gets the US one step further towards that.
I with all this also was a purely American issue, but alas… Europe has to deal with all this crap as well…
Nope, too fucking slow. Banhammer it is.
Also, I am European and I would apply the same solution to our continent too.
this is what they want. Raising taxes on rich people and capping tax exemptions for large religious institutions are the things they’re afraid of.
Again, the solution is: ban those religious and conservative institutions.
This is just what MAGA wants, but reversed…
You’re not going to fix Fascism by making wrongthink a crime.
If this cure involved animal testing then good it was blocked. Stop all animal testing
It doesn’t seem like this program has anything to do with “curing” cancer. It’s just about preventing, treating, and researching. It doesn’t explicity mention animal testing on the whitehouse.gov page. I’d say its a program with good goals.
Inside you there are two wolves.
Look, you either kill rats or kill people. I love animals, it’s unfortunate we need to experiment on them, but it’s also naive to think we can make progress without doing it. At best one could make an argument for death row inmates to be experimented on, but that would be quickly shut down as unethical and there wouldn’t be enough anyway. There is no way around animal testing, we can only keep it to a minimum.
Do you think Big Pharma wants a cure for cancer? Me neither. That might be the real reason it was voted down.
Do you really think the CEOs of big pharma don’t know they themselves have a 20% chance to die of cancer? (Not to speak of their relatives). Would the selfish and rich big pharma company leader not do everything to prevent its early death?
It’s not like their effort would reduce that number to 0%. Id expect something more in line with a reduction from 20% to 18% at best.
And I have no problem believing that CEOs of huge corporations would give up a few percent of their chance to survive an eventual cancer to ensure that their wealth continues to grow greedily.
Yes, obviously there isn’t one cancer, but about every cancer is different. So yeah I give you that. Now, my other argument is you can make the same or more money with one time, possible curative therapies than with live prolonging one. See for example Kymriah. Sure, big and small pharma invest most in development were they can expect a high revenue. Either were there is a big patient population or a small population which have a high medical need. (And therefore are willing to pay a high price).
They need to run on this. Put it in every ad, talk about it on every appearance
was it the 117th cure to be funded?
There are many cancers. And many cancers already have cure. And many don’t.
with an ever-growing debt
Let’s be real here: American debt is so big, that it holds entire world economy hostage.
it’s not american debt, but american loot and interference in other economies which holds the world hostage. No one would care for american debt if all countries were trading in their own currencies. Except, maybe, some if the americans themselves.
It is “if you owe bank trillion, it’s bank’s problem” on country scale.
How very on-brand for these Republican jerks.
Also, ever notice how often things are attributed to “Congress” in headlines like this? I mean, given the mention of Biden you could infer that it’s most likely the REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS, not “Congress”, from the headline since it mentions blocking a win for Biden, but…still. Seems to happen a lot. It must be more about that “objective journalism” and the “balance”, etc…
And it stands to benefit those Republican congressmen who run back to their jurisdictions and say “Washington isn’t doing anything about your needs. Send me back and I’ll obstruct them from doing the things that aren’t helping you”
Its a huge fucking scam
Apparently no one has told Republicans about how many innocent unborn babies get cancer. That seems to motivate them, let’s get some billboards going.
So what needs to happen, since we seem to let heads of state address Congress, is to have a mandatory session where cancer patients all come out, addressing their concerns directly.
Since it’s apparently no longer enough to speak at the ballot box, thinking that the person you’re voting for might actually have your good will in mind.Let the patients speak. Show the room their pic lines. Let them explain about how shitty they feel most days and read names of those in their families who have died from the same cancer they’re carrying now.
Let them say directly to those who put bias and politics first how disgusted they are with the men and women who are supposed to be the ones fighting for them. Not against them like it’s some highschool pissing match.It would work if these politicians had empathy, but they don’t. Otherwise, the world wouldn’t become the shithole that it is now and massive efforts would be put towards greenhouse gases reduction.
Thoughts and prayers as they say.
It’ll work like the 9/11 Responder’s Bill (eventually) worked: Representatives got shamed into voting for it. Maybe Jon Stewart can do it again…
But no, it won’t be because they actually give a shit, they will only act when they realize not acting will make it worse.
Why an American went to Cuba for cancer care
Cuba has faced more than 50 years of US sanctions. Now, for the first time, a unique drug developed on the communist island is being tested in New York state. But some American cancer patients are already taking it - by defying the embargo and flying to Havana for treatment.
Really shows how ass backwards the US really is.
Cuba, a country that the US has tried to destroy for over 60 years now with economic sanctions, has better healthcare than the US, aka the richest nation on the planet.
There is no excuse for the state of healthcare in the US. We really have some evil, greedy people deciding to let people die so they can have more money.
Cuba has three sides of the coin: one for foreigners, another for citizens and finally for politicians.
Cuba has three sides of the coin
What?
Also Cuba didn’t really do anything? They only truly alligned themselves with the communist block after the united states decided to start being shitty to them out of nothing but paranoia. Classic tyrant looking everywhere for conspiracies and causing some to appear moment.
the ‘pro life’ party. asshats
Dems in power: Oh, won’t somebody think of the deficit!!!
Republicans in power: Cut taxes, double the military, cut more taxes (only the corporations this time).
Lmfao the GOP raised taxes on the middle class with Trump, what the fuck are you talking about
Pretty sure he lowered taxes on everybody. It benefited the rich and corporations the most, but he definitely didn’t raise taxes on anybody…
He also set these non corporate tax cuts to expire after he left office…
Arguably taxes were raised for high tax, high cost of living states. For me, the major change was no longer being able to deduct all the property tax I pay, much less state income tax.
While yes I make a good income, it doesn’t stretch as far where I live. More importantly, my house is an 80+ year old starter home - I’m not crying into my avocado toast from some McMansion in a gated suburb with HOA.
Are you saying that you would have paid less in taxes on the previous tax code? Either way, this probably affected a relatively small percentage of people.
The blanket statement that “Trump raised taxes on the middle class” is false.
As I understand it, he cut taxes for everyone but they set those cuts to expire for the middle class. This is set to happen at the end of 2025: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
Right. He did not raise taxes as the other comment said.
Not that what he did was good, but we should get the facts straight at least…
