Reply #18: He's going to vote for national healthcare...stop making it up and read the facts.. [View All]

He's recovering from a life threatening cancer of his own.. read what he said today..


http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/05/specter_talks_health_care_at_h.html

Specter talks health care at Hershey Medical Center

by MONICA VON DOBENECK, Of The Patriot-News

Monday May 04, 2009, 2:39 PM

Sen. Arlen Specter told staff and students at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center today that sure, he wants to keep his job, but he also thought switching to the Democratic party would help him fight for health care reform. "Tomorrow, the number one item on the congressional agenda is health care reform," he said. "It's the president's number one item."

Specter was critical of the funding given to medical research under Republicans. "If we waged a war against cancer with the same intensity of other wars, Jack Kemp would be alive today," he said, referring to the former GOP Congressman and vice presidential nominee who died over the weekend of cancer. "It's scandalous we haven't done more to cure cancer or delay Alzheimer's or heart disease."

Harold Paz, CEO of the medical center, said Specter was influential in directing $10 billion in stimulus money to the National Institutes of Health. Hershey researchers have already submitted more than 150 applications for grants from that stimulus program, "with many, many more to come," he said.