Posted on 03/31/2020 7:39:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most likely our legal environment prevents these ventilators from being sold here.
Gotta love our lawyers!
So, they are really close to having a design that works.
“....But the contract HHS signed in September 2019 gave Philips almost a year before it had to produce a single Trilogy Evo Universal, and two more years to fulfill the order of 10,000 ventilators....”
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Hmmm...it sounds like the company is working within its contractual obligations. This article is simply yet another attempt to throw shade on Trump’s administration.
Interesting article but decidedly anti-Trump even though in the body of this story, a lot of the problems occurred and we not solved during the almost 8 years of the Obama regime.
Just look at the dates for a timeline from 2008 (election Nov. 2008, inauguration Jan. 20, 2009, so you have to give the new administration about 6-9 months to get settled in and projects up and running. However, the Democrats never gave Pres. Bush is leeway re 9/11. All the preparations for the attack took place before he was president and then when he had only been in office for less than 8 months, plus the FBI middle-management that existed under Clinton poo-poohed field agent reports on possible aircraft attacks on America.
You can slant anything anyway you want to, and leftist groups like ProPublica are experts at it.
[However, in a subsequent statement, the HHS spokeswoman said Philips is only required to deliver the ventilators “as they are completed.” Klink, the company spokesman, said Philips was only committed to meeting the original contract deadline of 10,000 ventilators by September 2022. ]
Story is too long. Can we get a digest?
Orange Man’s son bad.
Trust the experts.
From what I can gather, the contract wasn’t due until 2022, and the sale of commercial versions helps bring down the cost of the stockpile versions... and the stockpile design requires parts that have to be acquired from all over the globe, meaning that they can only be produced as parts suppliers can supply...and now the suppliers are having trouble due to the pandemic, so they can’t get everything as fast as estimated, etc...
No, it sounds like they already have a design that they can sell to the highest bidder, despite the grant given by HHS.
If they are already selling units at $12,000 to $13,500., they already have a workable design and product.
" Steve Klink, the company’s Amsterdam-based spokesman, said Philips was within its rights under the HHS contract
to prioritize the commercial versions of the Trilogy Evo.
An HHS spokeswoman — who insisted she could not be identified by name, despite speaking for the agency — did not disagree. "
The above statement indicates that HHS needs to have a "risk assessment officer" who understands corporate law.
It sounds to me that HHS got contractually "hornswaggled", bamboozled, and deceived by a manufacturer in Pennsylvania.
All perfectly legal... ugh !
The guts of this story. Company nakes several versions of ventilator. Hhs paid them to develop and deliver 10,000 low cost ventilators by decenber 2021.
The company has not started delivery, but continues to sell expensive ones to overseas customers.
This is somehow a scandal.
I suppose trump could order them to fill our 2021 contract before existing foriegn contracts. Then other countries would be screwed, and im sure trump would be blamed for deaths in those countries.
Or we could get a new manufacturer, which increases world supplies.
But that is seen as a corrupt thing somehow.
I mean september 2022.
This is pure obfuscation meant to confuse rather than clarify. The purpose is to force people to accept the headline as fact because the article is so confusing the reader can't recognize which facts are important.
Its time to confront idiot liberals and ask them what they would have done to stop a global pandemic before it got here.Trump appears to be the only leader outside of China being blamed.
The company is Respironics. “ Royal Philips N.V. — began selling two higher-priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world.”
I’m calling BS on this story. The Trilogy 100 and 200 have been on the market for years. They are European designs. My employer has thousands of these units in use on patients in the US. Our local center has 65 of these that we manage in patient homes.
There are two hospital versions as well, the Vision and V-60.
This story doesn’t pass the smell test.
Its because they see the country is desperate for these equipment and its a perfect opportunity to really price gouge the poor USA taxpayers, regardless of the fact that they company had gotten funds previously to do it for the USA but didnt fulfil that obligation.
When you can just print up another few Trillion dollars waste and fraud become irrelevant.
I wonder who made off with millions for this flaming “screwup”?
If we could we need to remember who did what and punish them. Not get back at them, not get even, get ahead.
A very long piece with lots of claims which overwhelm the reader. This is done to make it impossible to discern facts and what is true.
This is pure obfuscation meant to confuse rather than clarify. The purpose is to force people to accept the headline as fact because the article is so confusing the reader can’t recognize which facts are important.
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