Biden Looks to Cure Cancer Ahead of Midterms

Fox News: Speaking on the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s famous moonshot speech, in which he vowed to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade, President Biden outlined his administration’s plan to cut the U.S. death rate from cancer in half over the next quarter-century. The president said the nation – as it was in the early 1960s – is at an inflection point and vowed to organize and measure the best of the country’s energies and skills to end, and even cure, cancer “once and for all” (Fox News). 

President Biden: I believe we can end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all (Twitter). 

ABC: In his speech, Biden called on the private sector to make drugs more affordable, and data more regularly available. He ticked off medical advancements possible with focused research, funding and data (ABC).