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Maybe a proposal is to loosen FDA requirements during emergencies, and allow these ventilators to be sold on the free market after minimal testing (and sold with the understanding that they are as-is).

Seeing how inefficient and slow our health-care system is, I think the free-market approach may actually be better here.

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Ah yes, let's let a potential deadly thing go on the "market" and just hope it works. Because every first responder is going to take time to read reviews and ensure they thing they are wearing is actually going to work.

Meh, it's a hundred times better to let something be made in the next weeks out there that has 90% effectiveness than to disallow anything from being made because the testing process is too slow.

Maybe you're a bit oblivious to the problem, but the US has 160,000 ventilators and 372 million people. Even if only 1% need a ventilator we're over 3 million short.

Do the math buddy, before you get snarky.