MORRISTOWN, NJ (Expansionary News Service) November 7, 2009. Breakthroughs in genetic engineering, stem cell science, and nanotechnology will enable people to live incredibly long lives, and do so in better health than ever before. But Americans' fear that the health care bills currently being debated in Congress would make it difficult for them to gain access to these medical wonders in the future.

In a recent interview on KNX-AM, the LA/Southern Calif. CBS news outlet, Dr. Michael G. Zey, noted futurist/sociologist and author of Ageless Nation and Seizing the Future, said that the public will emphatically oppose any new program they think will lead to rationing of these new services or treatments, including cochlear implants, Lasik surgery, heart transplants, hip replacements, or any of the host of new treatments in the pipeline.

"The simple fact is that people want to live as long as possible," Zey stated, "and they are not convinced the proposed Senate and House health care bills will help them do that."

According the Dr. Zey, the best way to make high-quality health care affordable for all is to allow patients to buy insurance across state lines and let them join private insurance-buying pools. Patients should consider medical tourism, traveling to other countries for lower priced quality health care, a realistic treatment option. Also, Dr. Zey says, we must vastly increase the number of doctors and nurses in the U.S.

"Politicians, and that includes the President," Dr. Zey says "Must understand that people are demanding access to the best treatments and technologies medical science has to offer."

About Michael G. Zey

Dr. Michael G Zey is the author of the recently published "Ageless Nation" (New Horizons/Kensington), "The Future Factor: Forces Transforming Human Destiny" (Transaction Publishers; McGraw-Hill hard cover), as well as "Seizing the Future: The Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era" (Simon and Schuster, hardcover; Transaction Publishers/ Paperback) and several other books.

He consult in the areas of formal mentor programs, future trends, technology development, career issues, and leadership development for Fortune 500 companies and government. Clients have included AT&T, Nabisco (all divisions), Warner Lambert, Aviall, Inc. Hoechst-Celanese (Advanced Materials Division and Specialty Products Division), Dow Jones, Inc., United Technologies, the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations, International Specialty Products/GAF, the Missouri Family Services Division, the United States Postal Service, JFK Health Services, Inc., and other national and international organizations.

Dr. Michael Zey's controversial and original views on social and techno-trends have appeared in the LA Times, Providence (RI) Journal, Boston Globe, Worth, the Christian Science Monitor, Entrepreneur, the Sacramento Bee, The Age (Melbourne, Australia), La Liberation (Paris), Prosper, Il Sole/24Ore (Italy) The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABCnews.com, Radio Free Europe, La Monde, and XMSatellite''s USAToday/Newstalk station, NJ Business, as well as on WABC's "Batchelor and Alexander Show", AT&T's "Tech TV" and "The Bill Cunningham Show", as well as many NPR programs. He has been interviewed for The Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC, CNN, The Turning Point, and the Brazilian Globotv network program "Jornal Nacional". He has been an invited guest on FoxNews, PBS's Nightly Business Report, and ABC's 20/20. His views on human enhancement technologies appear on the website of the Discovery Channel, www.discovery.com. He is also a regular contributor to KNX-AM, the Los-Angeles news affiliate of CBS.

Michael Zey serves as Executive Director of the Expansionary Institute (www.zey.com), is a Full Professor at Montclair State University, NJ. and consults to corporations and government agencies.

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Source: Expansionary News Service, Morristown, NJ.)