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Thread: Desperately wondering any cheap way to get hooked onto a pump besides going on insura

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10-25-2006, 12:02 PM

JasonJayhawk JasonJayhawk is offline

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If you look at the actual design of the pump, the actual cost of manufacturing it is probably less than $50 of materials and foreign labor.

The rest of that $5,000 price tag goes to 24 hour phone support, research, payments to patent holders (I wonder of Dean Kamen still collects money for his insulin pump invention (Patent 3,858,581), anyone know?), lawsuit insurance, and paying the stockholders and executive bonuses.