Why does the hospital get a pass? They have critical care equipment, with no redundancies, and no plan to deal with an outcome so predictable it's been in EULAs for decades.
These lessons need to cut in all directions. If you want to profit off of treating disease you should be held to a much higher standard. Passing the buck off to your AV provider is convenient in the current atmosphere but it's incredibly short sighted.
> If you want to profit off of treating disease you should be held to a much higher standard.
The consequences of which will be even higher costs for an incredibly marginal improvement in outcomes.
We spend ~$13,500/year/person at the moment, what's another few thousand to that number, for an average gain in a few life-days-per-person?
At some point, you have to accept that medicine is an unlimited money hole, and that it can always do better, and that people are going to die, and that you're going to have to draw the line at some arbitrary cost/benefit limit.
> and that you're going to have to draw the line at some arbitrary cost/benefit limit.
Well US is spending significantly more money than all other highly-developed countries with (on average across population) worse outcomes than many of them to show for it. Also there is a lot of variance inside the country (i.e. the cost of identical treatment might vary wildly depending on health/insurance/etc. provider) making cost/benefit analysis semi meaningless.
