House of Paine

med device reuse markets

dark clouds 

 beyond the single payer rainbow
                           part 66


talk about market failure

try the hospitals' problems
with trying
to buy  refurbished
     " just as  good as new "
          medical supplies and instruments  


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start with
 vendor companies
      addicted to 
  the  fat profits
        and higher sales 
a " one use 
      and throw away  system"
            provides them 

add
these same suppliers
  funding  
   marvelous scare propaganda

and  providing
       a  really fucked   data base 
where risk with first use 
vs risk with re use

"isn't kept"


 and the 
up shot
izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

     way  more 
        pay more
              way more
              get less 
                       type healthcare  
  

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" hospital savings could be more then a  billion a year  "
                            saw bones slim 
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back ground:

 till the 70s
Medical instruments 
were made mostly 
of glass, rubber or metal,
 and  were designed to be reused

 But then  manufacturers 
increasingly turned to plastics
 and " the proliferation
 of the single-use labeling  "
 now 
 a $3 billion chunk    
 of the  over all $80 billion
          medical devices market

come the 90's 
as hospital med costs  kept skyrocketing 

 enter the reprocessors 

claiming 
they could cut
a hospitals 
   device costs
         in half 


  but between regs  juries
    and threatened device  manufacturers 
           super  profits

this   potential huge
        secondary market 
    has only managed to  woddle along 
                 still only
          in the low 100s of millions
a trailing  a bevy of blue tales 
             tall and true 


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comment:

 health  markets 
are  such a nasty thicket 


to be a help to our fellows 
better we all pledge now
---in writing --
that we 
just plain " let ourselves expire"
 at the first sign
          of a serious health crisis 
         
 after age xy

( what's your personal  xy ????
            that's  your choice compadre )

kicked while your still a net producer 

better that by far 

then struddllebruging 
getting  oldler and older
getting  restored over and over 
               till  the day comes
  u're  strapped on the gurney
    for one more proceedure too many 
                      one last
                           paper gold
                              mining operation