[wyager]

Would you rather third world countries have no medicine than medicine that doesn't check all the FDA's (mostly pointless) little boxes?

And yes, medical equipment in the US is absurdly overpriced due to extreme overregulation.

[rstevens24]

Truth. Also, with the way insurance works here, it's actually more cost effective for companies to make a more expensive device. If you're selling for a US market, you lose money by making your prices competitive