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Video: The “Terminator arm”

The lastest advances in medical technology to assist amputees in getting their lives back are bringing science fiction to reality.

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Sarah Conner is in danger!

LincolntheHun on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

And 0bamacare will cover the six million dollar tab.

UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

Nice, but only the rich like Nancy Pelosi (109 million dollars) and Harry Reid (5 million dollars) will be able to afford this kind of medical treatment.

Alberta_Patriot on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

And 0bamacare will cover the six million dollar tab.

UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

…but only if the politically-appointed Obamacare Death Panel feels that you’re “worth it”!!!

landlines on November 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM

They need to make one for liberal amputees that allows them to stick the thumb up their own azs.

Bishop on November 8, 2012 at 5:30 PM

PS – Development of this sort of device in the USA is likely to come to a screeching HALT, due to the new taxes and annual fees which Obamacare levies on medical device manufacturers.

This is only ONE of the totally insane perversions in Obamacare.

landlines on November 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM

PS – Development of this sort of device in the USA is likely to come to a screeching HALT, due to the new taxes and annual fees which Obamacare levies on medical device manufacturers.

This is only ONE of the totally insane perversions in Obamacare.

landlines on November 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM

True. Obamacare taxes the GROSS earnings of medical device manufacturers, not the NET. That means that the Lord Master gets his cut right off the top before R&D, factory rental, salaries, etc. This will kill the margin and profitability, drying up investors.

kurtzz3 on November 8, 2012 at 5:44 PM

We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

And 0bamacare will cover the six million dollar tab.

UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

Nice, but only the rich like Nancy Pelosi (109 million dollars) and Harry Reid (5 million dollars) will be able to afford this kind of medical treatment.

Alberta_Patriot on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM

And 0bamacare will cover the six million dollar tab.

UltimateBob on November 8, 2012 at 5:19 PM
…but only if the politically-appointed Obamacare Death Panel feels that you’re “worth it”!!!

landlines on November 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM

http://bebionic.com/about_us

Our Clinical Services Division provides clinical services both to the private market and in partnership with the NHS in the UK. With around 90 state-registered clinicians and 140 technicians, we provide clinical services to some 200,000 patients every year.

ZOMG!! How could that be? Socialist healthcare would never allow that. This must be all lies, that website is fake, so is the video, Romney won the election and we’re starting 1000 years of darkness.

lester on November 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM

6 million?
It used to come with bionic eyes and legs! Inflation sucks.

maynila on November 8, 2012 at 6:35 PM

lester on November 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM

Our Clinical Services Division provides clinical services both to the private market and in partnership with the NHS in the UK.

zomg…

I wonder, where do you think the largest market is for any medical device or pharmaceutical company in the world? Where do they make the dollars they need to support research like this? North Korea?

NotCoach on November 8, 2012 at 6:37 PM

zomg….

I wonder, where do you think the largest market is for any medical device or pharmaceutical company in the world? Where do they make the dollars they need to support research like this? North Korea?

NotCoach on November 8, 2012 at 6:37 PM

Not here. Nobody can afford it or the premiums that could cover it (well except Sheldon and pals). And prices remain high.

In the UK on the other hand NHS has approved it, so everyone who needs one gets one. Government over there has created a massive market for it, where as private profiteers here don’t give two sh1ts if a bunch of poor people have no arms.

This is exactly the reason healthcare should be government’s role.

lester on November 8, 2012 at 6:47 PM