[Prokopton]

Solution 1:Buy another 5000 machines for a cost of $10,000,000 and put them in storage. Then you would at least have a reasonable hedge.

Doesn't it seem silly for us to argue this after our government has just spent hundreds of billions of dollars on nothing that will benefit the American people? Think of all the good that money could have done, although I was against stealing it from us in the first place.

[DannyTN]

I know. It does seem silly to plan to pull the plug on people over $10 million when we just spent trillions.

When did $37 million start seeming small? But really $2000 a ventilator to save a life is really small. $1000/life if the ventilator gets used just twice.

The only difference is that they would have to spend the money up front before they know what the real scope of the crisis is.