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The FDA decided that Phillips CPAP machines are potential cancer causing devices and ordered a recall. Medicare pays for CPAP machines. In fact, if the recipients of Medicare funded machines do not use them, Medicare will take them away. What’s the big deal?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/sleep-apena-sufferers-frustrated-over-140403372.html

The FDA says people using Phillips CPAP machines should stop using them and get a replacement. Medicare will not pay for a new CPAP. Medicare will replace CPAP machines due to the FDA recall. Medicare will replace a CPAP after five years of use and not before. Phillips says they will replace the units once they get things worked out. In a year or so.

Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the genius of:

Joseph Heller, the author of the greatest management text ever written: CATCH-22