The Socialist Pair: Sanders, Warren oppose life-saving bill everyone else likes

President Obama will sign the 21st Century Cures Act, also called the Cures Now Act, into law on Tuesday, December 13th.

Both Republicans and Democrats supported the bill, which passed the House on a 392-26 vote. It then sailed through the Senate with a vote of 94-5.

Two of those dissenting Senators are favorites of the far Left: Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

The Cures Now Act makes it easier for new drugs to make it out of the FDA approval process and onto the medicine cabinets of people with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. This significant change doesn’t come cheap: the bill allocates $6.3 billion in government spending over the next ten years to advance medical research and reshape the FDA approval process.

Most of that money would go to the National Institutes of Health to help fund research into cancer treatment, and, hopefully, a cure. This is part of Vice President Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot,” which he announced in January 2016. The NIH will also receive money to research Alzheimer’s disease.