Money is being set aside for health care
I read with interest the Dec. 15 editorial, “Discouraging news about life expectancy.” I agree that this is discouraging news, indeed. It is suggested, also, that more money be set aside to improve Americans’ health care.
We should note that, just last week, President Obama signed into law the “cancer moonshot.” This was spurred on, at least in part, by Vice President Joe Biden, whose son, Beau, died last year of brain cancer at age 46. The bill was approved, overwhelmingly, by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The “moonshot” provides $6.3 billion, not only for cancer research, but also $1 billion for treatment targeting heroin and opioid addiction. A brain research initiative is also receiving $1.5 billion.
The editorial stated that, “We have found plenty of money, when it was needed, to wage war and kill foreign people.” Let us not forget that our’s was also the nation that truly did put people on the moon.
Douglas T. Corwin Jr.
East Washington