especially for children and fighting obesity. so the first lady arriving here in atlanta for a very special event. also we re getting new sound in. this is that wonderful story we told you about before. a baseball player who was recruited by his coach faced a life-threatening disease, and his coach donated a kidney to help him out. the two holding a news conference just within the last hour or so. i want to hear actually from the player who spoke earlier. let s take a listen. basically, i tried complaining a lot less because going through all this, you see a lot of people in way worse situation than i am and don t have donors and don t have a way to find donors or anybody to ask. hey, i didn t have to ask anybody. people well, the three people that volunteered to get tested, they volunteered for me. so i was lucky. that is kevin jordan.
online today. but that same enormous ability to send data allows you to send medical records. there is no place on the planet that if you have a life-threatening disease that you cannot interact with one of the leading experts using technology today, technology will solve the problem. as you pointed out, larry, it s not that we spend more money on wars than cancer, the united states spent more money last year buying potato chips than we invested in the national cancer institute. the last political election we ve spent more in one election than we do on cancer. and so if cancer elimination of cancer as a cause of death is worth $50 trillion to the u.s. economy, and imagine it s worth hundreds of trillions to the world, imagine if we doubled or tripled that budget, you couldn t get a higher rate of return. and we would compress that time. larry: we ll be right back with more.