Of course, this is an easy plan to sell the her base, which is why it was probably put together in the first place.  

Issues of health have always been a cause for Hillary - she knows that a healthy nation is a stronger nation, and rather than make the nation healthier by letting the sick succumb to their illnesses - the GOP just-go-off-in-a-corner-and-die-already plan - she believes that care should be both accessible and affordable.

If it's a choice between cancer research or a new weapons program, I'll take the cancer research everytime.  That being said, I'm not sure medical research is best funded by the government.  We've got to get spending under control sometime otherwise our grand-daughters will have much more pressing concerns than the threat of breast cancer...namely food,, water, and shelter.

maybe axe some of those earmarks? unsubsidize sugar? hell, unsubsidize the entire agricultural sector. maybe get japan to open its rice market to the outside?

But the question is not whether breast cancer is worthy of research. Instead it is whether the nation benefits when vocal advocacy groups get their way. Although it is hard to argue against allocating money for research on a serious disease, a number of experts on breast cancer said they thought research on the disease had been generously financed and that simply spending more money was not the answer.

Sheryl Crow, Hilary Clinton, and other lawmakers held a press conference to lobby for more funds for the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act. This bill would authorize $40 million per year to encourage research on environmental factors that may cause breast cancer, as well as set up a a national strategy. The bill was first introduced in 2000 and was held up in 2006 by Senator Tom Coburn [M.D. and two-time cancer survivor]. Senator Coburn said he was concerned that passage of the bill would put authority for research into the hands of politicians, instead of scientists. "It's also important to note that the $690 million NIH is spending every year on all forms of breast cancer research is almost twice as much as any other area of cancer research," said Coburn.

Many hundreds of breast cancer organizations have sprung up over the last few decades. With all of the soliciting and cause-oriented marketing being done to cure or assist victims of breast cancer, one might assume that it is the form of cancer that women are most likely to be diagnosed with, yet this is not the case. According to government statistics, more women have non-melanoma skin cancer than breast cancer and more women die of lung and bronchus cancer (68,084 in 2003, the latest figures available) than those that die of breast cancer (41,619 in 2003). Two-thirds as many women died of colorectal cancer as those that died of breast cancer in 2003. Yet based on a search of Guidestar's database of charity tax forms, 1,326 charities mention being involved with breast cancer and only 56 charities mention work in colon cancer and 11 in rectal cancer. Why are there only 5% as many groups addressing colorectal cancer as breast cancer victims? A likely reason is that colorectal cancer, also called bowel cancer, is not as attractive from a fundraising or marketing perspective as a disease that affects what is considered one of the most beautiful parts of a woman's body.

I am confident that my mother's having breast cancer is the reason she voted for Hillary - not because of 300 million government dollars to further research/prevention, but because universal health care really struck home.

Las t week it was jobs, next week something else.

I'm glad she's leading. Those who want to know where she stands on the issues are hearing it weekly.  People are weary of the bickering. Lets get on with it. Obama doesn't say much of ANYTHING, where's HIS plan? what is HE going to do? back it up lets hear it. He's got the MSM attention and the bloggers are all in his column but I don't hear anything but UNITY and HOPE, hell  I have hopes for unity too, but I don't hear much else.

Las t week it was jobs, next week something else.

I'm glad she's leading. Those who want to know where she stands on the issues are hearing it weekly.  People are weary of the bickering. Lets get on with it. Obama doesn't say much of ANYTHING, where's HIS plan? what is HE going to do? back it up lets hear it. He's got the MSM attention and the bloggers are all in his column but I don't hear anything but UNITY and HOPE, hell  I have hopes for unity too, but I don't hear much else.