Update: A letter to the New York Times from famed film critic Roger Ebert, who is facing the same dilemma.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Regulation Dramatically Increasing Cost of Health Care
Medicare, as well as private insurers, approves of a clunky $8000 computer for its speech synthesizing software but will not approve of a $300 iPhone ($100 now!) with a $150 application that serves the same purpose. Their reasoning? The worry is that these patients will use a device such as an iPhone for other purposes unrelated to their medical condition, e.g., browsing the web. Is this reasonable? If so, is it worth the cost?
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