Those ridiculous pricing policies are necessary to recover the cost of regulatory compliance which is seriously huge component of anything medical in USA.<p>As a side note, I know a company in India that manufactured a state of art blood test device. They tried to market it in USA and eventually gave up. Currently the company has tie up with Singapore hospitals which send blood to India for testing via flight and reports are mailed electronically automatically. There is a rig of blood testing machines in Powai-Mumbai which tests thousands of blood samples each day. This machine clearly can not be sold in USA (last time I checked was 6 years ago) because the cost of regulatory compliance is prohibitive.<p>If the medical device manufacturers indeed made windfall profits I would love to invest in their stock but they don&#x27;t seem to be doing as well as the hatred directed towards them.