No, not fair trade. Every purchase of any hospital equipment or medical device is taxpayer funded due to the grants and loans that state, federal, and local governments infuse into the health care system at every level. If you are working on borrowed money from almost any savings institution part of it is union money. If you went to public school or college you can bet that those grants and loans you used and the school systems you attended were funded by union members taxes. The infrastructure that you depend on to have a viable business was built and is run mostly by union labor. And last ,but not least, the entire defense industry which builds the products that keep all sorts of bad guys away and allows your business to exist unmolested from tyranny is built by union labor. So every time you see an F-15 or a B-2 just pounding the hell out of the people killing your countrymen just remember who built it.
"Every purchase of any hospital equipment or medical device is taxpayer funded due to the grants and loans that state, federal, and local governments infuse into the health care system at every level."That is such an amazing lie that I cannot let it go unchallenged. Now why would you say such a thing?
Where is your proof, to back up your outlandish statement?
So the entrepenuers who invented daignostic cardiology received grants? Bu!!$hit. They were made by Dr. Murray, in his garage, in the '60's, with no funding from the feds. Did pacemakers come from government grants? Ballon catheters? Coronary Stents? Safety Needles? Four engineers (I know them) started Symbiosys, making the best arthroscopic instruments in the world. In a run-down building, with no federal grants. (Boston Scientific owns them now).
What planet are you on?
They were all invented, patented, and sold by private individuals.
The US healthcare system is built on the backs of entrepeneurs. That is why it is the best in the world. Capitalism, plain and simple. Free to try new things, and make money, unencumbered by the heavy weight of government (no Hillary care, yet).
Federal, state, and local grants, etc., are to pay for devices, not invent them.