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This is government failure 101 Maybe we need a startup that reduces the cost from $1500 to $150

• ayuvar 11y ago
  From the article, they've already managed to negotiate the price to $490 (through, I assume, a bulk discount). Some of the testing has already been funded by the state of Detroit (albeit very late) and the federal government. At $150 per kit it would still cost the group $1.7 million to test every kit. Not to mention that a large part of the expense is projected to be the cost of getting detectives to investigate and arrest based on the results of the tests, which private industry probably can't provide.
  • ck2 11y ago
    At $150 per test there would be no backlog and rapists might not be allowed to become repeat offenders. This is not just some situation where as long as it is eventually done, that is all that matters. Time is critical. This was failure.
• leejoramo 11y ago
  This article doesn't go into these details. I recall reading in prior articles on this, that many of these kits are processed by private labs. Even the tests are done by the state, the costs will largely be related to the expense of the technology which was likely created by a bio-tech startup.