In addition to saving banks, strengthen the housing market cratered, and capping greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama had another ambitious goal for the stimulus plan in his speech to Congress last night: the treatment of cancer. Presumably this is a reference to $ 10 billion head for the National Institutes of Health.
Our recovery plan will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, reduce costs, ensure privacy, and save lives. It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the lives of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time. And it makes the largest investment ever in preventive care, because that is one of the best ways to keep our people healthy and our costs under control.
Also a noble goal as it is, the treatment of cancer in the coming decades is a far cry from the ambitions of Andrew von Eschenbach, who led the National Cancer Institute until 05. He often mentioned his plan to "eliminate death and suffering" of cancer by 2015, then passing the lens until 2010- a generally considered unrealistic plan (and unlikely to be reached in the next 10 months).
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