[glorgau]

Cardiac diagnosis is generally done using Ultra Sound Echo, which costs about half a million dollars. In sharp contradistinction, the device Thiagarajan invented costs only $500! Even home users can use it with ease, he says.

It won't be $500 after they figure in the costs for getting it approved by the FDA, liability insurance, distribution, marketing, lobbying, etc.

[GladesGuru]

"It won't be $500 after they figure in the costs for getting it approved by the FDA, liability insurance, distribution, marketing, lobbying, etc."


In one line you have summarized why the United States may well lose it's place at the high tech leader of the world. Between bureaucrats and lawyers, it would seem that there is a near insurmountable barrier which India doesn't have.

Ironically, if America had not gone bureau-socialist, these devices could reduce the cost of medical care for the elderly and thus allow a return to historic medicine in America.

[DennisR]

I do not understand this statement. The decompression of the files should only deal with the output of the Ultra Sound Echo. I believe you are still going to need that $500,000 machine to create the files that the $500 device will compress.