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Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas"
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"Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is...
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator developed with government funds in the U.S. stockpile. Meanwhile, Royal Philips N.V. has sold higher-priced...
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"Five years ago, your tax dollars paid to develop low-cost, easy-to-use ventilators for a pandemic. The company that took the $13.8 million? It hasn't delivered any."
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spin
(17,493 posts)are big donors or are related to or close friends with some important politician.
DeminPennswoods
(15,273 posts)during her campaign - if you get gov't money to develop a drug or product, it's a publicly owned design.
Hekate
(90,632 posts)alterfurz
(2,473 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)are prevented from receiving CORPORATE WELFARE to enrich themselves alone while providing ZERO benefit to the US taxpayers.
Profits from this type of activity need to be taxed to the hilt.