Government at Work -- This Should Comfort You

[mrplunkey]

Although meaning well, the government is fucking you over.

That's a pretty good translation.

My Cliff's Notes version is this:

We've gone so far out on the regulation/benefit curve that we're hurting more than we're helping. We may have even reached the point where we'd be better off nuking entire classes of regulation and starting over from scratch.

 

[smurf2]

sadly, this does not surprise me in the least.

+10

 

[EnderJE]

Sign-up enlistment sheet for the New Republican Army in the Second American Revolutionary War, should start circulating soon around Texas and Montana....

Charles

Terrorist. Someone call Homeland Security.

Wait. Do you have 72 virgins?

 

[EnderJE]

That's a pretty good translation.

My Cliff's Notes version is this:

We've gone so far out on the regulation/benefit curve that we're hurting more than we're helping. We have reached the point where we'd be better off nuking entire classes of regulation and starting over from scratch or start using the "don't be a douche rule".

Fixed.

 

[mrplunkey]

We're way past "don't be a douche".

We need to kill-off 50% or more of all regulations.

 

[EnderJE]

We're way past "don't be a douche".

We need to kill-off 50% or more of all regulations.

Sorry, that should be an and vs an or.

Step 1) Remove regulations.
Step 2) Add don't be a douche rule.

 

[UA_Iron]

Pretty common in the infusion industry not to make needed improvements because of the FDA overhead involved.

 

[javaguru]

1) Picture two FDA-approved medical devices, both used to control blood, saline and contrast media.

2) Both devices feature compatible, industry-standard connectors. These two devices are to be connected in one of several configurations for which these products were designed.

3) Customers request the two items shipped pre-connected, to reduce the chance for error (hooking them up to the wrong place) and improve throughput in the cath lab (faster setup).

4) To insure safety, the two devices are bonded together using the same compound used to bond the industry-standard connectors to the original devices. This prevents the connector from loosening and potentially introducing air into the system (which could hurt or kill a patient).

Seem reasonable?

FDA in its infinite wisdom has declared this a new medical device since they are bonded. No one will go through that, so the connectors are instead shipped unbonded with a warning note in the package to inform users they need to hand-check the connection to insure air doesn't get into the system. The irony is that inserting the note costs more than just bonding the connectors in the first place.

USA! USA! USA!

So the BMV is running healthcare....welcome to the Obama era...