Speaking of ventilators, why isn't someone looking into where the $14,000,000 of taxpayer money went to develop a low-cost portable ventilator, which finally won FDA approval last year, immediately after which the HHS ordered 10,000 of them? However, not a single one of these less than $4,000 versions of the device have yet to be delivered. Instead, the Dutch company Philips, is now selling a version of that same machine, which just happened to have been developed using US taxpayer's money by one of their AMERICAN subsidiaries, back to the United States, as well as to other countries around the world, for around $15,000 each. And Philips is one of the companies that Jared Kushnar's team is now negotiating with to buy ventilators from, but they're looking at an even MORE expensive model than the one that we've technically already paid to develop and for which there's an outstanding order that was placed over SEVEN months ago that we've yet to see the first device delivered.
Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced versions to clients around the world.
http://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-
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