[spidaman]

Yet another illustration about how broken the health care system is in the US. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are disincented to produce cost effective treatments, it's really an outrage. Medicine in the US is geared towards costly treatments that are needed on a recurring basis; we're inundated with marketing and profit driven medicine. IMO, the NIH and FDA should be promoting a research-rewarded system that promotes cost effective and potentially society-shifting treatments such as RISUG.

[ph0rque]

Yeah, I was thinking this would be a great kickstarter project. "Pledge $100 or more: get this procedure done for no additional cost, once available."

[bakbak]

Fantastic Idea - crowd financing at its BEST !!

[bakbak]

i always wonder why dont we have atleast one country on this planet that has some kind of fast-track approval process for this kind of research and solutions ???

also it shouldn't be costing millions - something like this should be self funded by the govt. ... tax payers are made to pay for many stupid things but research like this should be treated as "Too Big To Fail" !!!!