John Edwards Announces His Plan To Cure Cancer

As you might expect, it contains a lot of stuff about spending more tax dollars on research and telling people how to live their lives. But what’s interesting is while Edwards is showing his willingness to spend other people’s money on solving the cancer problem, it turns out that America has the best survival rate in the world for all types of cancer among males and females:

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What’s funny is that, going by those numbers, it seems the best thing John Edwards could do about cancer in America is keep this country away from socialized medicine which is practiced by nearly every other country on the list. But, of course, in reality John Edwards loves the idea of socialized medicine and largely ignores that those countries that have it offer health care quality that is below that which Americans enjoy.

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  • http://www.bismarckmandanblog.com/ clintf

    What are the trial lawyers going to do if we get a socialized health care system? Won’t those juicy malpractice suits go away along with our medical freedoms? As a lawyer, I’d expect John Edwards to be opposed to socialized medicine…but it just goes to show that they’re all liberals first, everything else second.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    So he can’t find his first comment so his second is an erroneous accusation that someone (presumably me as I’m the only one with the authority to do so who’s on tonight) deleted his unobjectionable (but incorrect) post.

    It’s a corollary of Bush Derangement Syndrome! Conservative Derangement Syndrome…since the libs would quash all dissent in a NY minute if they could get away with it, they project this onto all conservatives.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I think you mean this comment over here on the American Cancer Society thread.

    Apologies?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    my apologies indeed.

    Cash Money: Anyone who’ll own up to his mistakes is okay in my book! Your credit is still good here!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Apologies?

    Don’t hold your breath! Not the first time some bonehead got confused over where he posted a comment and then cries “Censorship” when he can’t find it again!
    Sheesh! Amateurs!

  • gonzo

    where’s cuba? oh that’s right…

  • robert108

    RC: I think it was pointed out that much more is being spent on AIDS than cancer, mostly due to political pressure. Do you think that’s right? Cancer affects everyone, but AIDS is a behaviorally-spread disease affecting only a small portion of our population.

  • ToddonCapeCod

    Then I am voting for him!
    After all, we already passed up on John Kerry in 2004, and the Faggot says that if we elected him, people like Christopher Reeves would get up and walk! SHAZAAM!

  • halatbis

    For those in the Bismarck Tribune readership–see David Forth column on the opinion page. Where is Canada in this? Note: England and Ireland are a ways down the list, too. The good socialists like the “treat everyone the same”, never mind that all services reduce to a lower level–excellence is not part of that system.

  • Cash Money

    Thanks for deleting my completely reasonable if contradictory comment.

    Nice to see there is such a healthy respect for free speech and difference of opinion around here.

  • Cash Money aka Bounced Check

    Good heavens, my apologies indeed.

    Posted in a hurry at work and got completely mixed up. Definitely jumped to an assumption there, sorry.

    Not angry at all, gentlemen. If anything, a little jaded by past experiences with censorship, but that’s no excuse. Excuse my poor form.

  • robert108

    Angry people tend to project both their feelings and behaviors on the people about whom they are angry. The lefties call the President a Nazi because that’s what they want to do, and imply that he is a dictator because that’s who they want to be.

  • Mickey

    Where’s Canada? Isn’t socialized medicine perfect?

    Democrats lie — people die.

  • Robin Crenshaw

    Didn’t I read on this very blog that AIDS research funding should give way to cancer research funding? Not making some big point here, just wondering. I might be recalling incorrectly.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Edwards is a light weight and has no chance of getting elected. IF he wants to spend his fortune frivously so be it…

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    So he can’t find his first comment so his second is an erroneous accusation that someone (presumably me as I’m the only one with the authority to do so who’s on tonight) deleted his unobjectionable (but incorrect) post.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Robin, what’s your point? Sure we’re number one in the world but we’ve still not found a cure. Siphoning so much money to AIDS is not going to help us find a cure for cancer (nor heart disease) something that to me is a far higher priority.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Thanks for deleting my …comment.

    Cash Money: Maybe you could call yourself “Bounced Check”?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Thanks for the apology.

    Our fearless leader Rob has a VERY open policy about comments. Except for spam scum you really really have to cross the line to get a comment deleted.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Bookmark this post to trot out everytime that we need to point out that our medical system is the best in the world.

    I’m sure that these rankings go to other medical conditions such as heart disease, orthopedic problems etc etc etc.

  • Johanna Bartley

    I’ve heard about this engineer that claimed he discovered the cure for cancer and before he had the chance to tell some friends and fellow researchers he was found dead. It’s been 10 years since then and only know we hear of it!

  • Bat One

    Tough crowd on Friday nights. Hard core, mostly. Don’t forget to tip your waitress and bartender when you leave.

  • Jaibones

    Gonzo, you ended the thread too quick: “Where’s Cuba?” Ah, yes…the apogee of socialized medicine, communism as run by a military dictator…

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