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Dr. Rick Boxer & Lou Weisbach
Physician & Entrepreneur
"There is plenty of money to be made in the cures. I'm not worried about doctors or pharmaceutical companies going bankrupt because they find the cures."
Dr. Rick Boxer
"The real terror in this country is the terror that is going on right now in 113 million American homes where people have diseases. It's time to shut down the terror."
Lou Weisbach
Q: Is it true that if we could cure just one or two major diseases, we could save enough money to provide health insurance for the 44 million uninsured Americans?
That is true, and we'd have a lot of money left over. It's time for all of us as Americans to step up and cure diseases. And we believe that we have the appropriate plan that will accomplish that.
Q: We already have the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Surgeon General in this country. Why do we need another cabinet level position for health?
Well, the American Center for Cures will be a center that fundamentally looks at health care research in a completely different manner. All the organizations you've mentioned are producing the pieces of a puzzle. The American Center for Cures wants to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Q: Aren't there a lot of folk in the health care industry who really don't want to find cures, because the money is in not curing these diseases, but in treating these diseases?
Well, I'm a physician. I've been practicing for nearly 30 years. I believe that fundamentally people want to do the right thing; that they want to cure diseases. There is plenty of money to be made in the cures.
Dr. Rick Boxer is a well-known Milwaukee urologist. Lou Weisbach founded the world's largest promotional products company. Together they are pushing to establish the American Center for Cures, which would work solely on finding cures for everything from AIDS to cancer.
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Recommended Web Sites
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has information about finding cures for catastrophic diseases.
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute explains the connection between stem cell research and disease cures.
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Published: September 15, 2005
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