Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas.

ProPublica ^ | March 30 | Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden

[gogeo]

Time to play some hardball.

[mass55th]

"...plus the FBI middle-management that existed under Clinton poo-poohed field agent reports on possible aircraft attacks on America."

Plus the fact that the CIA and FBI were not allowed to share info at that time.

[mass55th]

"The guts of this story. Company makes several versions of ventilator. HHS paid them to develop and deliver 10,000 low cost ventilators by December 2022."

The article says the deal was made 5 years ago...what, like 2015? If that's the case, why did the Obama Administration wait until 2015 to tackle this in light of the H1N1 virus devastation? And why did they give them from 2015 to 2022 to complete the order?

[Romans Nine]

ProPublica is Soros funded.

This is another three author hit piece against Trump.

[Wuli]

Ban their export.

[xrmusn]

Yes, if one gets to the ‘meat’ of it there are/were some timelines.
Another example of a US Company with the ‘apron strings being pulled overseas’....
Great that OUR grocery stores etc though maybe managed here, are controlled by foreign entities.

NEVER FORGET the 12000 dollar hammer.

A company was charging US 12000 per hammer and one of our brilliant ‘rules writers’ (Politician) pointed out the same hammer could be bought at your local store for maybe 30 bucks.
Company held its comments for awhile until ‘we’ started boycotting the hammer in question and they finally explained themselves.

Their company was set up to make 500 hammers(??) a day and when the government wanted one they had to completely shut down their operation, clear ALL equipment of ‘foreign debris’, undergo inspections to ensure the plant is ‘clean’, then get the ‘new plans’, say for use in an USAF plane, have to ensure it would pass an ABomb (or worse) blast etc then after maybe a month the plant would be cleared to produce the 2 or 3 hammers the USAF wanted.
After the new hammers were produced the plant had to undergo a reverse process of readying the plant for ‘normal’ use.
SO, for 3 hammers the plant was down for a few months, one may say make 50 thousand while you are set up BUT it is impossible because the next ‘order’ will undoubtedly call for insertion or deletion of one of the components.

HENCE a 20 buck hammer is a ‘bargain’ at 12000 considering what the MFG has to go through.

OH YES, if they don’t ‘want’ to make the 3 hammers they are probably bound to that 100 year contract they were ‘forced’ to sign 40 years ago OR the govt could virtually ‘order’ them to produce them in the name of National Security.

Basically the same problem when the GOVERNMENT and its bureaucrats and lawyers get involved.