Why did Jr. CUT cancer funding? Didn't he get the BFEE memo?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/bush-cancer/

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The total budget for the National Cancer Institute has increased $1.2 billion since 2001. But as ABC News’s Medical Editor pointed out last night, “most of that occurred in those early years under a Clinton initiative. The budget was actually cut last year and the projected budget for this year is to be cut even further.”
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Pretty disgusting PR stint the BFEE is pulling tonight. Pathetic. Larry King should be ashamed of himself. Isn't there a f*cking JOURNALIST left in this country? OMG. These evil rat bastards stop at nothing. It's beyond belief.

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My wife was told they will have to cut back on the clinical trials that they will open.

We need to send CNN a message...

STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

They have applications for clinical trials that are on hold because there is not enough funding.

I hate what these people have done to our country. There isn't anything that they haven't destroyed.

NCI isn't the only ones that got cut. NIH is having to put a lot of money into their biodefense/bioterroism program. Without a major increase in funding they are having to get those funds from other programs

into early detection. The rethug squeaky wheel gets the grease?

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17110509.htm

Bush reauthorizes early detection program for breast, cervical cancers
By Lisa Zagaroli
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Rep. Sue Myrick remembers how emotional it was to find out that breast cancer was threatening her life.

Unsettled by how difficult it had been to get a correct diagnosis in 1999, the North Carolina Republican began to champion the issue and was troubled to find out about the hurdles that women who lack adequate medical insurance face. The women might be able to find programs offering free or low-cost mammograms and Pap tests, but a cancer diagnosis didn't give them access to medical treatment.

"So it was like a doctor says to you, `I'm sorry you have cancer, but I can't help,'" Myrick said. "To me, (that) is the same as a death sentence."

At a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, Myrick watched as President Bush signed a bill meant to give those women a better chance at survival.

The legislation she sponsored reauthorizes an early detection program for breast and cervical cancers, and gives states the option to use Medicaid dollars to treat women diagnosed through it.

more...

Just in time for Poppy's PR stint. OMG. These people are beyond evil.

But he LIES with every damn word out of his mouth.

Then again, he'll tell me he isn't a true journalist, but unfortunately for his employe, the same excuse doesn't hold water for the people who cut his checks: CNN.

as well as many other health benefits.