[DanBC]

The movie EDIT "puncture" (thanks diek!) is a reasonably entertaining account off the retractable needle.

US healthcare (and thus, US patients) may miss out on improved syringes, but I hope they're able to sell many of these to the developing world where needle re-use is a serious problem. Re-using needles when 10% of the population has HIV/AIDS is awful. Not just because you risk transmitting HIV to other people, but because people with HIV are not able to resist any infection you pass onto them.

I'm surprised that the practices are legal - I'd have thought that the US would have had good law to ensure free and fair competition.

[diek]

I thought it was "Puncture", starring Chris Evans.

[gcb]

Name one regulated market in the us that have fair competition.

Btw. It's not only in the us. Regulation today is the most secure form of monopoly

[Aloisius]

Uh, regulation often prevents monopolies. See: anti-trust regulation.

[jlawer]

Doesn't anti-trust regulation stop people ABUSING monopolies rather then forming them?

Most of the teeth I've seen in the anti-trust regulation is the ability to break up companies after they have monopolized.