See media frenzy on this issue.

In addition to being a political football for the religious right and progressive left the stem cell issue is a potential red-herring that could divert us from the health care reform issue.

These so called "breakthroughs" haven't produced much for US health consumers/patients recently?

But affordable,efficacious, and safe healthcare for all Americans sure would!

Let's keep our eye on the correct ball and not get duped into false promises of "miracle cures" from the BIOTECH Industry whose main interests are the financial interests of their company officers and stockholders.

Here is what my friend and colleague- a recognized leader in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Dr. Marc Micozzi says about it

"More broadly the false promises (and profits) of the entire biotech industry (if it can be called an industry without making products) are a diversion from the central issues of health. They allow deluded hopes that somehow a next generation of "miracle" cures will save us from disease, disability, death and financial disaster without having to make the tough choices that require a change in paradigm"

He is correct. And he and I are not at all anti-science. But we are both pro-health

Dr. Rick Lippin

http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com