Catherine Calhoun
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May 20, 2010
My son has a rare bone disease. I watch him suffer with bone pain – it really does get worse when it rains. He uses a wheelchair and walker. I would do absolutely anything for him to make it better – thing is though – the system is so broken there is not much that I can actually do for him. He is one of the more than 30 million people in the USA who have a rare disease (a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people). 75 percent of these people are kids. For most of these diseases, these kids, there will be no treatment or cure for over 150 years. The system for rare disease is so broken...
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