The Cancer Moonshot aims to reduce the death rate from cancer by 50 percent over the next 25 years by pouring money into cancer research and improving coordination to speed up research. "We're going to end cancer as we know it. Mark my words," he said in a speech this month.
Yet his signature legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act, goes in the opposite direction—levying price controls on prescription drugs and gutting the ecosystem that underwrites drug discovery.
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