"America’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is excessively risk-averse: it often takes twice as long to approve a new medical technology as European regulators do. America’s confusing approvals process deters upstart medical-technology firms, since they typically lack the deep pockets and army of experts required to navigate it. And for a device to succeed in America it must be blessed not just by the FDA but also by the bureaucrats who oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the two huge government health-care schemes. Obtaining that blessing can take years."
The worlds finest health care?
"A night in an American hospital typically costs 25 times as much as a night in an Indian, Brazilian or Chinese one; a night in a European hospital typically costs four times as much."
Being slow to bring expensive high-tech devices to market isn't necessarily a bad thing, since once there they are often overused.
ReplyDeleteI feel we are doomed....no progress only greed!
ReplyDeleteBeing slow to bring ANY device to market is a peculiarity of the FDA, etc. Innovators without fat wallets go elsewhere or give up. The FDA is a 'crime' itself as it long ago gave up its main mission.
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ReplyDeleteI agree. I think 'doom' happened; not on 9/11 but on the previous years election date.
I was watching 'Slumdog Millionaire' last night and saw a lot of similarities with our lives...