Re:Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people wit...
by rubylark on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:24AM
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Here's a counter argument: "a company making money off of folks with ____" describes the entirety of the Biomed industry. Every medical device is sold with the intention of helping people with medical issues, but they can't be free. The cost of development and production has to be covered by somebody (be that by the government, medical insurance, or private party). If it wasn't, the company making the device wouldn't have developed it in the first place.
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Re:Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people wit...
by throwanem on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:26AM
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That industry is also regulated and monitored to ensure that the interventions coming out of it are generally safe and effective. Is the same true here?
Re:Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people wit...
by beaconstudios on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:30AM
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> Every medical device is sold with the intention of helping people with medical issues, but they can't be free.
Close, but a slight correction here:
Every medical device is sold with the intention of maximising profit, but they can't do nothing or people wouldn't buy them.
That more accurately portrays the priority.
Re:Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people wit...
by drgeorgesachs on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:51AM
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So true.