<p>When health insurance companies are willing to pay for everything, doctors, hospitals, and urgent care centers have zero incentive to use less expensive methods. ;</p>
<p>The rejection of the anesthesiology robot is a perfect example of such unchecked spending. Anesthesiologists have a vitally important job: they keep you unconscious, pain free, and &#8211; most importantly &#8211; alive. ;</p>
<p>Enter Sedasys, the anesthesiologist robot that brings a $2,000 anesthesiology procedure down to just $200. ;The only problem is that nobody wants it. When hospitals can get their hands on $2,000 per procedure from an insurance company, why settle for $200?</p>
<p>Sedasys&rsquo; creator, Johnson &; Johnson, will stop selling the robot due to poor sales. ;This incredible piece of machinery would have been able to administer accurate anesthesia for routine procedures and continue monitoring a patient&rsquo;s vitals throughout the process. ;</p>
<p>A single nurse or clinician would have been able to operate the robot. ;The cost of hiring a trained professional for routine anesthesia would be eliminated, but the amount of money pulled in by facility would also ;decrease. ;</p>
<p>The Sedasys robot was approved by the FDA in 2013. But according to the <em>Washington Post</em>, it &ldquo;was never welcomed by human anesthesiologists. Before it even hit the market, the American Society of Anesthesiologists campaigned against it, backing down only once the machine&rsquo;s potential uses were limited to routine procedures such as colonoscopies.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Many Americans avoid regular exams like colonoscopies because they are unaffordable. These procedures, however, are an important preventative measure when it comes to cancer and other diseases.  ;Early diagnosis could mean the difference between life and death &ndash; and a whole lot of money. ;</p>
<p>Sedasys would not have put anesthesiologists out of work. What it would have done was make routine treatments far more affordable for those visiting clinics and community hospitals.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong> We picked this as an example of how screwed up our health system and why prices can&#8217;t do anything but go up. When solutions like this are rejected so that hospitals and insurance companies will make more money, things need to change.</p>
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