Harold Ford, Jr. Proposes A “Cure Czar”

By Kleinheider Posted on May 8, 2008 at 11:02 am

Harold Ford, Jr. chimes in on the national debate over health care with an interesting idea:

We believe that a national effort to discover treatments and cures to eradicate the worst kinds of disease could dramatically improve the quality of health for all Americans, reduce the suffering of families, lower health care costs and lessen the burden that medical care places on our economy.

To achieve this goal, our next president should create an American Center for Cures (ACC) — a cabinet-level authority charged with fighting life-threatening disease.

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2 Responses to “Harold Ford, Jr. Proposes A “Cure Czar””

Mickey writes
May 8th, 2008 11:38 am

A Democrat want MORE GOVERNMENT ! ! ! What a shocker!
Sean Braisted writes
May 8th, 2008 12:11 pm

Actually, it was Thad Cochran, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and Joe Lieberman who originally proposed this same idea back in 2005…the only Democratic trait here at work is recycling.

Harold Ford, Jr. Proposes A “Cure Czar”

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