Design and Architecture
Has Obamacare Delivered a Gold Rush for Medical Devices?
Medical Device makers are complaining about Obamacare but Stuart Karten says the ACA is heralding a golden era for the design of health care products.
By Frances Anderton • • 27m ListenMakers of “medical devices” have attacked Obamacare because they don’t like the tax it imposes. Not Stuart Karten. The LA-based designer of stylish hearing aids, handheld ECG monitors and health data-gathering sensors says this is a golden era for medical device design. Later in the show, Lisa Napoli and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp discuss LACMA’s new Alexander Calder show and why designers and architects love his work.
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In the midst of all the grumbling around Obamacare you’ve probably heard that medical device makers have not been happy -- because the cost of expanding health insurance is meant to be partially offset by a tax on medical devices.
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Most people know Alexander Calder as the inventor of the mobile, a kinetic sculpture that hangs in space. But like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, he is a familiar and beloved figure to such an extent that it obscures the fundamentally radical impulse of his art.
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