Re: medical displays - so expensive

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:20:13 -0700 B <b@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| Matthew L. Martin wrote:
|> phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|>
|>> I came across some medical LCD displays which looking around for
|>> monochrome
|>> LCDs (yes, that can be done).
|>
|>
|> Look, you ignorant, self centered blow hard. Just how many people in
|> this newsgroup have never seen a B&W LCD display? Think calculator,
|> watch, status monitor etc.
|>
| Are you a medical equipment salesman?

His points are quite reasonable (surprise). It just does not _seem_ that
the total of all that should bring the price up to where it is. Maybe 1/3
of it. I suspect the rest of it is due to lack of effort to keep prices
down. Afterall, one factor in supply and demand is the ability to _not_
demand something if the price is too high. Hopsitals don't operate that
way and the medical equipment providers know that and jack up the prices.
I did find out for a fact many years ago that the corporate _profit_ on an
MRI machine, after all the costs of making it fully hospital and health
care worthy, the research in developing it, costs to manufacture, etc,
comes to around 40%. The costs are so extremely high that hospitals
management is numb to the price and just pays it. Then they double bill
patients (yes, it really has happened to me, although I ended up winning
the case) to help them pay those costs.

Matthew L. Martin has his opportunity to behave normally and just point
out the facts and construct an argument for how all that can justify the
pricing. Do all those things account for the price? I don't know. He
failed to make that case and just jumped back to doing personal attacks.
So either he really does not know _enough_ about this to make a case, or
his agenda of making personal attacks is just too overwhelming for him to
keep it under control.

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