But last year, Freeman had a heart attack. He was told surgery in his hometown of Reno,Nevada, would cost close to $120,000.
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"The whole ISTC initiative appears to be driven by political expediency to reduce the waiting lists, without regard to the quality of surgery and the cost to patients, " they said.
Odd, because it certainly seems like the cost of bypass surgery a few years down the road would outweigh the relatively meager cost of this test, but such is the logic of the industry.
The firm, entitled HelpMeSee, has two missions: to provide direct funding to surgeons in the developing world for low-cost lens replacement surgeries performed on cataract blind adults and children, and to train 30 thousand cataract specialists in the developing world a low-cost, cost effective surgery using virtual reality simulators and courseware adapted from aviation training.