How many lives you gonna save? In the entire history of high school sports, how often has this happened? But let's run panicking over the exception and ignore the rule. All so we can act like we've really made some "contribution" to the betterment of society. Yeah, sure.
or a private corporation -- particularly one involved in healthcare -- voluntarily deciding to be involved in saving lives being a sucker.
If I were a stockholder in that corporation, I'd want some answers as to why the management thought it advisable to give away our product just to assuage some hysterical attention hog. If the PR proved valuable, then it might not be a bad form of advertising. But if it was just to garner good will from Soccer Mom and Safety Sandy, I'd raise hell.
I thought Freepers were in favor of the private sector, not the government, doing these things.
I'm not in favor of ANYBODY doing things that don't need to be done. This doesn't need to be done.
Guess you're not in favor of anybody doing it.
Wow! You ARE perceptive!
"How many lives you gonna save? In the entire history of high school sports, how often has this happened?"
Well, if you'd bothered to check, you'd find that sudden heart problems are THE most common cause of death in middle school, high school, and college sports. But of course you wouldn't bother to check or to care. Sudden cardiac arrest killed my daughter at age 18 after 7 years of running and even though she was in good enough shape to earn 12 high school letters. I wasn't going to mention this, but your answers are so incredibly obnoxious I gave in.
"If I were a stockholder in that corporation, I'd want some answers as to why the management thought it advisable to give away our product just to assuage some hysterical attention hog. If the PR proved valuable, then it might not be a bad form of advertising. But if it was just to garner good will from Soccer Mom and Safety Sandy, I'd raise hell."
Thank goodness you aren't a stockholder (you can't be anyway since this company doesn't have public stock; still they netted $66 million last year even with that awfully terrible $76,000 donation of AEDs. Nearly bankrupted the poor company). The corporation wasn't trying to assauge attention hogs. They took a hard look at the statistics and decided this was a good move that would save lives among the young and the older fans.