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Petsko Genome Biology 2010, 11:117 /2010/11/4/117 COMMENT The devil’s in the details Gregory A Petsko* h e Health Care Reform Bill that was recently passed by resources necessary for government agencies, private the US Congress and signed into law by President Obama companies, academic institutions, and investigators to has admirably simple goals: to provide health care develop high need cures; reducing the barriers between benefi ts to some 30+ million Americans who currently laboratory discoveries and clinical trials for new thera- have none, and to begin to control the spiraling cost of pies; and facilitating review in the Food and Drug Adminis- health care, which is threatening to make a shambles of tration (FDA) for the high need cures funded by CAN. the US economy. But, as my mother was fond of saying, h e board consists of 24 members, serving 4 year the devil’s in the details, and at 2,562 pages of almost terms. At least one individual eminent in each of the unreadable prose, there are a lot of details for the devil to following fi elds will be appointed: basic research; hide in. h is shouldn’t detract from the extraordinary medicine; biopharmaceuticals; discovery and delivery of achievement of President Obama and the Democratic medical products; bioinformatics and gene therapy; medical Party leadership in Congress; by simply getting the bill instrumentation; and regulatory review and approval of passed, they accomplished something that presidents medical products. In an unprecedented move, an addi- since h eodore Roosevelt have failed t