I agree with you but it can still be frustrating and there&#x27;s a lot of entrenched interests involved.<p>My story is that I broke my foot about 10 years ago (in the Grand Canyon no less). Long story short, when I eventually got the doctor, she told me that this kind of fracture always took a long time to heal and the literature suggested that electromagnetic stimulation had some benefit. Of course, the insurance company wouldn&#x27;t pay until it was deemed a &quot;problem fracture&quot; in a few months (as my doctor thought it would be) but I did eventually get my $1000 stimulator at about 50% off.<p>It had the most horrible interface one could imagine. If it slipped off the foot, it apparently simply shut down for that day&#x27;s stimulation. In any case, my foot eventually healed.<p>A few years later, a friend had a similar injury. I gave her my stimulator. Apparently the allowable stimulations had expired by then. She took it into a medical supply place and they were horrified by the idea that they might simply reset the device.<p>I&#x27;m not a big pharma hater but this sort of story is why people get really mad.