  A cure is close, but action is required         Comments    
Threshold   RE: wealth redistribution not the answer By TomZ on
6/29/2007 11:10:23 PM , Rating: 2 The government is a huge and
slow bureaucracy. They can't respond to all health threats for
all people. Isn't it arrogant to assume that the needs and
illnesses of everyone else's children are less important than
yours? And that their taxes should fund research for your
child's needs and not the needs of your children but not
necessarily theirs?  Sorry, I should have answered this in my
above post. No, I don't think it is arrogant, etc. I don't think
he's saying that research for this form of diabetes is more
important that research for other diseases or that it should
consume all the available resources. He's just saying that it is
something that is important to him, and therefore, he is an
advocate for trying to draw attention and funding towards
finding a possible cure. This seems elementary to me, what is
the issue you see with his advocacy?  On a