Wow, I'm impressed. He gets it.
I'm old enough to remember when Richard Nixon (yes, HIM!) made the prediction that the US would find the cure for cancer in a very short time. I can't remember if he said "in our lifetime," or maybe it was "by the end of this century." Either way it was very inaccurate.
Cancer has become a growth industry, and some suppliers in this industry are making boatloads of money. The rest of us are paying those suppliers, in one way or another. Not that we all have cancer or that we're going to get the dreaded disease, but we ARE paying taxes and we ARE paying for medical insurance. Also we're holding fundraisers for our loved ones who can't afford the treatments, etc. That's how it works: when people fear death, they'll give any amount of money to avoid it.
I'm sorry to sound so cynical. But I DO believe that the cure for cancer could have been found years ago. They probably found it already, but it was abandoned because there wasn't enough profit in it.
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