Who are you waiting for?
The 100% issue.
Disease doesn’t care how anyone votes. Say who you’re waiting on a cure for, ask three people to do the same, and make sure every member of Congress hears it.
Say who you’re waiting for.
Every video on the wall is the same size. A famous name and a grandmother in Toledo get the same square.
Be the first.
Every person who says who they’re waiting for fills one square. Tap a face to watch their video.
See how many are waiting in your district.
Every person added counts in their congressional district. The totals are public, so every member of Congress can see how many people in their district are waiting.
Where these diseases hit hardest
“Disease is the only 100% issue in America. It impacts all of us equally.”
Disease affects every one of us.
This campaign belongs to no party. These are our six rules, and you can hold us to every one of them.
We name no party and no politician
No president, party or candidate is named anywhere on this site or in anything we publish.
We never tell you how to vote
We do not endorse, oppose, rate, rank or grade anyone, and we never ask anyone to withhold a vote.
Every seat gets the same question
All 470 seats, incumbents and challengers, get the same words on the same day.
Every answer is published in full
Word for word, with the date it arrived. Where there is no answer, we leave the space empty.
Everyone gets the same space
On the wall and everywhere else, a famous name and a stranger appear at the same size.
No party colors
The site uses no red and no blue. Disease is not a partisan issue, and the site should not look like one.
“Every member of Congress and every candidate running this year must make curing disease their No. 1 priority. Not someday. Now.”
Use these words, or your own.
What matters is that you say who you’re waiting for. Change anything else.
Ten seconds on a phone camera is enough.
Send it to the people who vote on it
Find your House member at house.gov and your senators at senate.gov. Send it to all of them, whichever party they belong to.
Then send it to the candidates on your ballot. Find them by state or district →
Go deeper
The plan · sixteen efforts, each with a budget and a goal.
Why $750 billion · how the bonds pay for themselves.
What candidates said · every answer, in full.
The song: “Unity Strong”
The American Center for Cures’ song, with a voice-over by Kim Sledge. It plays softly under the recorder if you want it to.
Who are you waiting for?
Three questions: who they are to you, what they’re waiting on, and where you vote. That is everything we keep.
We never ask for the name of the person you’re waiting for, a diagnosis, or anything about their health beyond a disease you can skip.
District counts are public. The list behind them is never published, never sold and never shared with a campaign.
If you say a name, you say it in your own video, because you chose to.
$750 billion once, or $1.1 trillion every year.
Treasury bonds, not taxes
The plan is funded by bond sales. The government pays only the interest: $6 billion the first year, $12 billion the second, $18 billion the third, rising $6 billion a year.
Licensing fees cover the interest
Compounds developed with this money that treat rather than cure are licensed to pharmaceutical companies. Those fees offset the interest.
Savings repay the principal
Every disease prevented or cured cuts federal health spending for good. Those savings pay the bonds back.
These four figures come from different sources and years and measure different things: public spending, total cost including lost productivity, and health care costs. Together they come to about $1.1 trillion a year.
“We have the science, the technology and artificial intelligence to do it. What we’ve been missing is the funding and leaders who are held accountable for results.”
Support the American Center for Cures.
You don’t need to give to be counted. Donations support the work to get the American Center for Cures funded by Congress.
Donations are made to The Giving Back Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 04-3367888), for the American Center for Cures. Tax deductible to the extent the law allows.
The plan Congress would fund. Your gift helps make the case to Congress, district by district.
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We asked all 470 seats the same question.
“Will you publicly support a national, bipartisan effort to fund the prevention and cure of major diseases?”
Sixteen efforts, each with a budget and a goal.
Once funded by Congress, the American Center for Cures would launch sixteen separate private-sector efforts, each led by proven business leaders working alongside leading scientists and physicians.
14 × $36 billion
Fourteen efforts, each charged with preventing or curing a single disease. Defined goals, defined timelines, and leaders accountable for results.
2 × $108 billion
One for every other disease, rare and orphan diseases included. One for artificial intelligence.
$30 billion reserve
Held back to help cross the finish line, where funding usually runs out.
The five pillars
Every ribbon. One cause.
Every disease has its own color. This campaign is for all of them.
- Alzheimer's
- All cancers
- Breast cancer
- Childhood cancer
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Parkinson's
- ALS
- MS
- Mental illness
- Pancreatic cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Lung cancer
- Colon cancer
- Leukemia
- Kidney disease
- Melanoma