From Bob Herbert's column in the print edition of todays New York Times:

The federal government has a national breast and cervical cancer early detection program, run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It provides screening and other important services to low-income women who do not have health insurance, or are underinsured.

There is agreement across the board that the program is a success. It saves lives and saves money. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't reach enogh women. At the moment there is only enough funding to screen one in five eligible women.

Can you guess what the new Bush budget proposes? [Predicting the fate of this program has all the inevitability of a Grade B horror film, doesn't it? "No! Don't go there! Don't spend the night in the cabin in the woods!"]

[Bush] proposed a cut in the program of $1.4 million (a miniscule among when you're talking about the national budget, which would mean that 4,000 fewer women would have access to early detection. ...

But wait! There's more!

"What's really amazing [Oh? To whom?]" said [Dan Smith of the American Cancer Society] is that Bush cut every cancer program. He cut the colorectal cancer program. He cut research at the National Cancer Institute. He cut literally every one of our cancer-specific programs. It's incomprehensible. [Oh? To whom?]

Of course, as the cancer rots your body, these guys will be more than happy to share your pain by handing you a Bible and offering to pray for you. Assholes.