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Barack Obama and Joe Biden
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Today, Barack Obama takes office as President of these United States. Among the many issues he will deal with is breast cancer, and he has called for greater funding for breast cancer research. Vice-president Joe Biden and his wife Jill have been established the
Biden Breast Health Initiative, which emphasizes early education and detection. With this kind of team, will breast cancer really receive more attention and funding - the kind of progress that is needed to establish real prevention and a cure? Or will this cause go on the back burner, as the new administration tackles the foundering economy, and war in the Middle East, among many other issues we now face? The Department of Defense got the news in late 2008 that they were
approved for $138 million in FY 2008, up by $10.5 million the previous year. But is that enough? With more people losing jobs and health insurance, how will we pay for treatment, address problems that come with survivorship, and stretch those same dollars to fund research? I welcome your ideas and thoughts on this -
leave me a note in the Forum, or post a comment to this blog. The next four years will be interesting on many levels - let's hope it marks a leap in the right direction on behalf of funding, and finding, the search for the cure for breast cancer.
