[speaker001:] what do you think uh are we spending the right amount of money on AIDS research
[speaker002:] well uh actually I'm I kind of uh well that's like between saying yes and no it uh I think that we're uh spending about what we should but I'm not exactly sure if we're spending it in the right right uh uh location
[speaker001:] yeah I I do believe that there I I'm like you I'm a little mixed up on the subject I think there are more people who die of heart disease in a year in this country than there are of AIDS is that true have you heard that
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and and I suppose really AIDS is you die from any number of things isn't that true true
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] so so I would suspect that you know pneumonia I think is one of them and and the cancers and whatnot so I think indirectly there there is extra AIDS research being done
[speaker002:] right um but I think that a lot of people have the attitude that the more money you throw at something the uh better chance you have at at curing it and that's just not true
[speaker001:] no I don't think so I I I totally agree it's just like education throwing more money into a grade school isn't necessarily going to make things better
[speaker002:] right I think uh you know that that money needs to be spent on on research  but I I think uh you know it should be a a wide spectrum research of research and not just uh you know research on a cure and not not on a research on how to uh prolong life or or uh make the disease any any less traumatic know I think money I think one once somebody has contracted the disease that's that's uh you know that's unfortunate but let's try to concentrate on on you know let's put resources on making sure nobody else gets it
[speaker001:] yeah so I you're thinking in terms of of an education on how to prevent it or you're thinking of maybe uh I don't know a vaccine or
[speaker002:] uh right right well I think uh you know there's there's my opinion is there's there's a there is a limited number of resources medical resources available
[speaker001:] oh absolutely
[speaker002:] and I think it is foolish to to uh spend most of those uh a a large majority of those resources on people who have AIDS uh simply because they they uh they need attention right away or or need more attention than somebody who has heart disease or or slow cancer or something I think I don't know I think uh too much money is being spent on on uh on sophisticated medical treatment for for people for people who need to be in a hospice program
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well do you think that one reason maybe that the the funding level is as high as it is is because AIDS perhaps strikes uh a vocal group of people
[speaker002:] yes well that I mean that fits the country we live in the people
[speaker001:] I mean that's right tell me about it I was in I was on a down in downtown Washington Sunday when half a million people were demonstrating
[speaker002:] it oh okay yeah the I mean the the people with the loudest group voice get the money it's not necessarily the people who uh who deserve it the most
[speaker001:] yeah well I I agree that there's a limited it it's almost like we have fixed number of dollars that you can spend on medical research and you have to kind of allocate it in certain directions
[speaker002:] right although that sounds heartless that's that's
[speaker001:] but good things have come of that I mean polio is just about a thing of the past
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and and other diseases um
[speaker002:] well I know just something local to you I remember I used to live in Dallas and so I have friends there and I know for example uh Parkland Hospital is spending or at least was when I was there spending a large portion of their budget their budget on on on basically warehousing AIDS victims
[speaker001:] uh-huh I suspect that's true
[speaker002:] and yeah that's you know I I you know my heart goes out to those people who who have the disease but I don't think that we should be spending uh  you know that the that a majority of the hospitals resources should not go for for uh indigent AIDS patients
[speaker001:] that's right well certainly if you have AIDS unless you're incredibly wealthy you're going to end up indigent
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I think that I mean that goes along with it too you get to the point where you can't work and