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Re:Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete? by RecycledEle on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:29AM (#36057752)
Putting a requirement to support a product for another 80+ years will prevent small volume product from ever hitting the market and will increase the cost to the consumer.

What if we decrease the regulation on things that do not harm the patient when they fail, so they can but a device for $100 on Amazon rather than $10k at the hospital?

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Re:Who Pays the Price When Cochlear Implants Go Obsolete? by friend_and_foe on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#36058133)
Sure, glasses, hearing aids, that's all fine.

If your product needs to be surgically installed in a patient, if you can't afford to support it for the lifetime of the patient the product isn't viable and shouldn't be brought to market.

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