Health Care Reform Debate Is Overlooking The Real Story: Legislation Should
Focus On Reducing Costs by Preventing and Curing Disease
Available for Interviews: Lou Weisbach and Dr. Richard Boxer, Co-Creators of a
Revolutionary Concept - The American Center for Cures (ACC) Initiative
CHICAGO, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ADVISORY: As lawmakers debate health care
reform, business innovator Lou Weisbach and Clinton White House health care
advisor Dr. Richard Boxer are available for interviews to discuss a glaring,
missing element of the forthcoming health care legislation: reducing health
care costs -- and saving lives -- by preventing and curing disease.
The chilling reality is that the percentage of Americans who die of cancer
today is unchanged from 1950. There is nothing in current health care reform
legislation that provides for real change in the way we approach health care
in our country.
Weisbach and Boxer want to change that: they are co-creators of The American
Center for Cures (ACC) initiative, which proposes that a "Manhattan Project"
or "Moon Shot"-like urgency be applied to cure or prevent disease. Their idea
is revolutionary: the creation of The ACC -- led by a cabinet-level Director
of the Cures -- housed within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The
ACC's mission: to cure a minimum of three diseases within the next seven
years.
The ACC concept has support from numerous lawmakers and health care experts,
as well as citizens who are signing a petition at
www.americancenterforcures.org to have the initiative included in health care
reform legislation.
Weisbach and Boxer can discuss the following topics:
-- Chronic diseases affect more than 110 million Americans.
-- Chronic disease care accounts for nearly 75% of the more than $2.1
trillion spent on health care in the U.S.
-- The ACC will create a unified, global mission to cure disease.
-- Each disease of focus will have a CEO accountable for a cure.
-- Diseases for focus -- chosen by a "Cures Council" -- may likely focus
on
Alzheimer's, Autism, various types of cancer, Crohn's disease,
depression, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, and
genetic diseases of childhood (such as Cystic Fibrosis).
For more information on The American Center for Cures, please visit
www.americancenterforcures.org.
About Lou Weisbach
Lou Weisbach is a Founding Partner of Chicago-based Stadium Capital Financing
Group (SCFG), a majority-owned entity of Morgan Stanley Principal Investments.
SCFG has a proprietary financing methodology, Equity Seat Rights (R), or
ESR(TM). Previously, Weisbach was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HA-LO
Advertising Specialties. Established in 1972, the company became the largest
marketer and distributor of promotional products in the world. Mr. Weisbach
also has long been involved with a number of local and national charitable
organizations.
About Dr. Richard Boxer
Richard Boxer, M.D. is a Professor of Clinical Urology at the University of
Miami. He is also a Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin and the
Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Boxer was a two-time finalist for U.S.
Surgeon General (under both the William J. Clinton and George W. Bush
administrations) and served on President Clinton's Task Force on Health
Reform. In addition, Dr. Boxer has served on the National Cancer Advisory
Board and the Board for the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases. He was a U.S. Delegate to the World Health Organization
SOURCE The American Center For Cures Initiative
A. Krinsky of Media Success, Inc., +1-312-755-9004, ak@mediasuccessinc.com,
for The American Center For Cures Initiative
