It is because they want to be re-elected and they need the big political donations from those who lobby for the insurance industry, the medical device industry, the pharmaceutical companies, the commodity producers and a host of others.
It does not include the pharmaceutical industry, medical device manufacturers or the health insurance industry, all of which are much more dominated by for-profit enterprises.
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" He calls the medical device industry "a national treasure" and says of the heart failure device: "You tell me of any other therapies that can reduce mortality in that kind of profound way.
Yet despite this, manufacturers are struggling to keep up with the broader mobile device industry.
The device industry is preparing to cut jobs in the United States and grow outside the country.
Single and focused, Randall thrived at American Hospital Supply and quickly got himself noticed in the medical-device industry.
An interesting analogy comes from a coversation I had with a Big 4 Tax Partner regarding the Medical Device Industry.
The medical device industry has concluded that Hugo has no legal rights to the data generated by his own heart.
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It's a headset with a projected display, a camera and a data connection that could revolutionize the mobile device industry.
In 1993 a high-ranking FDA official, Robert Temple, issued a report on how the burgeoning device industry could conduct more rigorous clinical trials.
The medical device industry employs more than 400, 000 people in 12, 000 factories across the country, often small, entrepreneurial firms with a small product line.
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Angioplasty, defibs and orthopedics are now mainstays of the device industry.
The 510(k) program has helped support a robust medical device industry in the U.S. and has helped bring lower-risk devices to market for the patients who need them.
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"The device industry would grind to a halt" if studies for implants became as big as those for drugs, says Mitchell Krucoff of the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
As reported earlier this week in the New York Times, the IOM report was the subject of a preemptive attack by the medical device industry before the report was even released.
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Prices and reimbursements for medical devices will continue to be negotiated between the device industry and insurance companies, retail establishments, and the federal government, in the case of veterans and active duty service members.
Bristol chief executive Lamberto Andreotti, 60, who took over last May, has built on the strategy put in place by drug-and-medical-device industry veteran James Cornelius, who ran the company for four years starting in 2006.
We know medical device manufacturers will prosper under the new law -- the Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans and these newly insured individuals will use products made by the medical device industry.
According to a study by the industry group AdvaMed, the device tax alone could cost the industry more than 10% of its jobs, slashing some 43, 000 positions.
The 33-year device-industry veteran swears that Medtronic's glory days are far from over.
So given that other mobile phone developers are successfully challenging Apple, the previous industry leader, which device is the best all-in-one tool for travellers?
The White version of the device has an industry-first Teflon coating (right, just like your pans) to keep things clean and grime free.
More than that, this single company has done as much to create very rich people as, basically, the entire medical device and drug industry.
The first half of 2011 has seen amazing levels of consolidation in the digital storage industry, from individual storage device manufacturers to storage system vendors.
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Some industry observers estimate that the device has sold fewer than 1 million units since it went on sale earlier this year, so video rentals could surely revive the effort.
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Building on the device momentum and industry-leading power-efficiency of the award-winning Atom processor Z2760, Intel's first quad-core Atom SoC ("Bay Trail"), will be the most powerful Atom processor to-date -- doubling the computing performance of Intel's current- generation tablet offering and providing the ecosystem with a strong technology foundation and feature set from which to innovate.
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By contrast, consumers' "readiness to manage their personal finances and banking via a mobile device has caught the industry off guard, " said Robert Hedges, managing director at AlixPartners LLP, a Boston-based consulting firm.
Our country benefits substantially from having a very robust health care industry, including pharmaceuticals, medical device companies and many others than benefit millions of people--both by their medical products and by their employment, productivity and profits.
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