[idontcareabout]

why would life saving equipment be permitted to be proprietary in the first place.

how many people have died because they could not access it.

you speak as if proprietary causes no harm.

[jimmyvalmer]

how many people have died because they could not access it.

It's only in the last hundred years that one's health couldn't be discussed in a transactional quid pro quo. Both humankind (300,000 years) and evolving life (3.5B years) never held that stipulation.