How Do You Spend a Trillion Dollars a Year and Not Cure Cancer?
March 28, 2018 Leave a comment
Murders by guns are minuscule compared to deaths by cancer. Where are our priorities?
How do you spend a trillion dollars a year, over 6 trillion dollars in less than 6 years, and not cure cancer?
Murder by guns vs. cancer, a look at our current death toll in this country (based on trends – not actual numbers). —> Always current Mortality statistics for USA
Cancer kills one in four Americans, making it the second-most common cause of death after heart disease. That’s nearly half-a-million Americans dying from cancer each year. More than 1.5 million new cases are diagnosed annually.
The average health care spending on a cancer patient is around $20,000 annually on treatment. All told, more than $125 billion is spent on cancer care per year, just in the United States. Yet, in 2013, the U.S. government funded a mere $4.8 billion.
Why are we not a nation cancer free? Where are our priorities? What are we thinking?
This is getting personal. I have three sisters. My youngest…
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