Arizona Republic is grumpy about the recent implant of a pacemaker purchased on eBay. We say “why?” eBay offers patients more than 17,000 medical devices – many at low, low discount prices. And you know what – it’s just good business. Just think – the physicians at Arizona’s Advanced Cardiac Specialists can make up a lot of the money that they’d been losing from cutbacks in insurance reimbursement – especially since $411.99 (their winning bid) let them sell the pacemaker for a $5500 profit. Cardiac surgeons have to eat too.
Come to think of it, why was it that eBay stopped allowing the sale of organs?