'Bionic eye' offers hope to blind

Amazing. Restoring sight to the blind. Yet I read here constantly not only how shtoopid Americans are but also how badly their health care system needs overhauling, that all they care about are profits; as if research and development like this is being succesfully matched in places like Norway, or France, or England for that matter.

 

spend a lot of money on bad ideas and health care programs that may not benefit all types of problems but we do spend money more than other individuals in Europe so stop complaining and join the contibutors and not the complaimers

 

...is available to a very limited number of people who can afford it. Those who are lucky enough to have health insurance are carefully denied access to the costly innovations which might aid them. Most aren't even that lucky and America's neo-natal death rate is a disgrace.

There has never been any question that capitalism is a spur to invention and innovation and this includes medicine. The question has always been whether the fruits of the system are equitably enjoyed. The bionic eye might one day prove to be a useful device, but for now a hand is a pretty good device for distinguishing between a cup and a plate.

Sometimes "hope" is the cruelest thing to offer.

 

it can be developed into a weapon

 

What about them making a bionic legs too?
Then you could just run to work at super speeds.Saving gas and the environment.
I wonder if you could be pulled over for running faster than the speed limit......

 

Then offer a prayer.


Care and insurance are two different issues. Many shun the latter and fewer than one has been led to believe require the former. Get government out of the picture and things will improve (unless one is committed to serfdom).

(Thanks to Hollyweird...)



Get the FDA out of the way and investment capital will throw itself at this technology.

Uh, Kirk out.

LM

 

White technology rules.

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...two different issues and both of them relate to medical coverage. Private insurance is financially inefficient (except to the insurer and the medical care providers and to those who can afford to purchase it) and it does not address the overall health care needs of the nation.

 

"...is available to a very limited number of people who can afford it..."

You nailed it.

This is a wonderful invention. To me though, it seems better to direct that research money toward basic health care, health care that 47,000,000 Americans don't have.