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Hmmm, one question for you, if money weren’t the issue, would you go to china for your transplant in China or the artificial pancreas? 

My problem with your lengthy statement is this; China is no benevolent country that thinks human life is of great value!  Look at what they do to their own people!  Suppression, violence, segregation, China isn’t in the business of making the artificial pancreas for the quality of human life!  They are in the business for competition, aka $$! That is also the reason they have started doing human trials using human embryonic stem cells. So has Russia. Other countries may be rushing to production of products that aren't complete!  As Aaron Kowalski stated, the sensors for the APP are not sufficient!  Other overseas companies have not mastered it as well. 

This country has it share of problems, for example the FDA has had increased responsibility to review the ever-expanding medical science that comes in, but congress has failed to give the FDA enough financial resources to build the necessary panels to review the number of breakthrough medical technologies that have been flourishing. 

When you talk to researchers in field, such as APP and human embryonic stem cells, they WANT FDA involvement! For those of us who are willing to be guinea pigs and perhaps so desperate to survive, the FDA creates a safety net to ensure that all parties are responsible. They may not always have it right, but they are well supported by the medical research industry. Countries like China and Russia aren't as concerned.  They are in it for the technology race.

Probably the most surprising information at the World Stem Cell Summit was the global collective sentiment that the United States FDA is an organization that does better than most other orgs in providing safety for clinical research.   At the conference, they used the story of a young Israeli boy who suffered a brain defect that could be cured using embryonic stem cells.  His desperate parents, who hoped of a cure, flew the little boy to Russia.  In deed, the defect was entirely erased, but because the research was rushed to human trial, not enough was known about the risk for cancer.  The boy died a couple of months later of a brain tumor brought on by the powerful and unwieldy stem cells. Russia got what they wanted, global attention that they are advancing medical science, but at what cost?

As for the claim that charities are started purely for untaxed profit, well, that business has improved the lives of many people with various diseases.  And in the case of JDRF most certainly put it’s donations have been poured into improving research.  Part of the costs are the obvious the cost of running a business; it would not exist without them.  But 84 cents on the dollar is directed into research.  That means 16 cents goes to running the nuts and bolts of running a business.  I don't think that is unfair or unreasonable.