“Mr. President-elect, strengthen…
Outside EditorialsThe opener from Lance Armstrong’s recent Commentary piece on CNN is certain to get some attention:
Here’s something that should outrage you: Every day, more than 1,500 Americans die of cancer. Our federal government knows how to prevent many of these losses. Tragically, its attention has simply been elsewhere.
The rest of his piece and the priorities he lays out as prescriptive advice for the incoming President is here.
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