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As heartless as this sounds: the patient isn't the only person in the equation. There are investors that fund the medical research, a company has employees to p
by whorleater 10y ago
As heartless as this sounds: the patient isn't the only person in the equation. There are investors that fund the medical research, a company has employees to pay, the hospital wants the best pacemaker available, etc.
- anonbanker 10y agoyou're right. that sounds pretty heartless.
- llukas 10y agoSure - why not ask patient for paid subscription for privilege of using pacemaker? Somebody please think of the investors...
- whorleater 10y agoAnd in the same vein, why not ask investors to if they'll fund a pacemaker company in a purely philanthropic fashion? Isn't it better to get pacemakers in a limited fashion than not at all?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoSure. Soon we'll have cloud-connected subscription-based freemium pacemakers that will shut down and kill everyone when the company making them gets acquihired. I mean, I get the business incentives involved, but I also think it's high time to realize they're getting insane and should be altered.