Curing What Ails You

Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman seems a little different than Senator Joe Lieberman. The latter was a paradigm of fiscal responsibility, but the former proposes to spend $150 billion on basic medical research to cure a whole host of diseases, from cancer to AIDS. Lieberman Wants Disease Cures [The Advocate]. Now I am all for subsidizing medical research, but this is a bit too posturing for my taste. As a nation we are spending so much on health care already with Medicare and Medicaid, curing the stuff we already can, that there's no way we can afford any more cures!!

 Posted by glenn