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Jerry wrote: >"That means the agency spent about $1,162 in research monies >for every heart disease death, versus $33,513 for every AIDS >death." > >Hold on a cotton-pickin' minute here. My understanding is >that PD gets 28 bucks a year, right? What's up with this? PD >is a third-class disease? I hear ya, Jerry. I tend to think that AIDS deserves the $33,513 because this virus mutates rapidly. Health care providers are more than a little nervous about what direction that mutation might head. I consider those dollars well spent if we can prevent this disease from hitting the general population. Considering PD's huge expense in terms of personal, insurance and Federal dollars, it would seem that our government would gain by increasing the research funding to discovering a cure for that disease. But our government has not always excelled in logic....... ----- Regards Mary Ann