Regulation is a killer, I've seen it in action. Just today I was running the numbers on a major SW development project for the health tech firm I work for and

Regulation is a killer, I've seen it in action. Just today I was running the numbers on a major SW development project for the health tech firm I work for and basically concluded our whole $40M R&D investment is going to have a massive negative NPV. Why? Because of delays due to regulation. Regulation required more developer time and resources, which definitely put a dent in our projects financials. But the real killer is that it delayed us getting to market by almost a half a year and the results of the slowdown and inefficiencies in development are causing us to roll out a lot more slowly. So I am too painfully aware of the effects of regulation on health technology.