Jim Pinkerton: A New Grand Strategy in the War Against Disease - Victory!
In the early 1950s, economists estimated that by the year 2000, treating polio would cost the U.S. $100 billion annually. Instead, we eliminated the disease.
by Jim Pinkerton
September 16, 2015
I. Winning is Cheaper Than Losing—and Better for our Health!
As I seek to develop my ideas of a Cure Strategy against disease, it has come to my attention—that is, I have read the readers’ comments—that many Breitbart readers regard my vision or healthcare abundance as liberal, as in, you know, on the left.
And I’ll admit it: Those comments kinda stung. Because me, a liberal? Nothing could be further from the truth.
A little background on me: Beginning in 1979, I was a volunteer for the Reagan for President campaign in Los Angeles. That’s Reagan as in Ronald Wilson Reagan. That experience meant the world to me, personally and professionally; I was thrilled when, in the following year, 1980, the Gipper not only won the GOP nomination but also, of course, the national election, defeating Jimmy Carter.
Nearly four decades later, whenever I land at LAX airport, I make a point of driving by the building that contained the headquarters, 9841 Airport Boulevard, …
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