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Why should it be a handout? Phillips got paid nicely for those devices, they should just as well support them. Here is the job for the regulator. And a lesson

• fencepost 9y ago
  In this case the woman in question could quite literally fight that until she was blue in the face and likely die doing so. The responses would range from foot-dragging (if she dies while waiting, the problem's gone away) to offering newer alternatives such as the positive-pressure pumps discussed in the article. Sure those have problems of their own (sanitation, lung damage, infection) but they're a commercially-available alternative. There's a certain element of "arguing right-of-way" here, and the regulators that you reference are unlikely (these days unlikely in the extreme) to do enough to help her. In particular they're unlikely to do enough on a short enough time period to make a difference.