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So what needs to happen, since we seem to let heads of state address Congress, is to have a mandatory session where cancer patients all come out, addressing their concerns directly.
Since it's apparently no longer enough to speak at the ballot box, thinking that the person you're voting for might actually have your good will in mind.
Let the patients speak. Show the room their pic lines. Let them explain about how shitty they feel most days and read names of those in their families who have died from the same cancer they're carrying now.
Let them say directly to those who put bias and politics first how disgusted they are with the men and women who are supposed to be the ones fighting for them. Not against them like it's some highschool pissing match.
It would work if these politicians had empathy, but they don't. Otherwise, the world wouldn't become the shithole that it is now and massive efforts would be put towards greenhouse gases reduction.
Thoughts and prayers as they say.
It'll work like the 9/11 Responder's Bill (eventually) worked: Representatives got shamed into voting for it. Maybe Jon Stewart can do it again...
But no, it won't be because they actually give a shit, they will only act when they realize not acting will make it worse.