State asks voters to boost cancer research funding

This article written by Corrie MacLaggan, is about the proposition 15 bond proposal. She is a part of the Statesman staff and her article appeared on statesman.com. The discussion of the article is whether or not Texas government should grant 3 billion dollars to public and privet institutions to help fund cancer research.
M.D. Anderson which is a hospital in Houston, and Baylor are the best cancer hospitals in the nation. The majority of the bond would be invested in them. The city of Houston as a lot to do with the proposition mainly because 40 percent of the votes for the proposition are said to be in Houston. The argument is cancer research important enough to merit the spending of 3 billion dollars, or is it too much of a burden on the taxpayer.
The evidence that this bond is strongly needed is given by the top experts in the field. They say that cancer is a very complex disease to study, each tumor even of the exact kind, is very different. They almost have their own fingerprint. from the research that has already taken place experts have found promising leads, but to continue the research equipment and personnel costing up to 1 million dollars a year is needed. Cancer kills 35,000 people a year in Texas alone. The opposition says that cancer isn't the only deadly disease and doesn't deserve all the money to experiment with. Also with all the money the bond will provide it is not certain that any cures will be found. The only certainty is that taxpayers will have to pay off this incredible amount.
MacLaggan makes a good argument. She gives both sides of the story and allows the reader to make a decision. There is good evidence that this bond is needed for cancer research and it is obvious that these potential discoveries will be made at a much slower rate without it. I am still not convinced that it is a good thing. the sum of the proposal seems almost to high for the country much less this state. I don't see this benefiting Texas especially if no cure is ever found.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/10/07/1007cancer.html