I feel that Gov would be very hesitant to give out this amount of money for a conditon so many people are suffering with. The reason I belief that it is SO expernsive at the moment is because there are only 2 of these machines in the whole world available. It is deffinately a topic I will discuss with Dr Jeanmonod. Imigain it being only 5000 dollars ... the waiting list wold run into 2000-20-30-40 etc ...
If proof comes this works every country should have one of these for cases where people are just on the verge of suicide ... and even than the waitng list would be massive.
Let`s pray he can give me least of a 50-60 percent improvement - or even more (kissing Gods feet) ... and I will be able to speak for all of us regarding this procedure and the effect of it...
Well once upon a time there was only one clinic offering lasic surgery for your eyes and it was expensive as hell. Now there is about 5 of them only here in Gothenburg offering surgery at a price of about 1-2 months salary of the common worker. If the technology works then there will be a huge interest (accually for that reason it's a good thing that it can be used on a variety of conditions). The price of the machines is so high becouse they are designed one at a time for a special order and there is only two of them so far as you state.
Well, if the demand for machines rises so will the incentive to make the process of manufacturing them cheaper. This is the case with every new technology. You can go and buy 150" LED-TV's for 20 000 euro today, in 4-5 years....2 000 euro. That's how things go with technology. It's always expensive as f**k in the begginging.
MRI-machines, X-ray machines....the list could be made very long. They were all expensive once, and still are to some extent. But you can't find a hospital without them.
As I stated it will probably never be cheap but the price will be reasonable for most of us. Just like going to fix your eyes or having a nosejob done. All of these were once unobtainable for the working citzen but now it can be done. Sure some have to make some sacrifices and rearange their priorities a bit to save up that kind of money but it's not unobtainable.
Accually the 40 000 euro is not that unobtainable either. People buy houses here in my city for 4-5 times of that amount every day. So instead of buying a house you can get your tinnitus fixed. Or even better, don't buy that new Volvo that costs about 40 000 euro. Fix your tinnitus and drive an old Mazda or Hyundai or whatever for a few years instead.
The problem is that for people to make that kind of investment most of us need guarantees that it will work. We need that patient X that @
NiNyu is talking about. And probably more then one.
The same principle goes for the technology of the machines them selves. Right now there is only certain types of ailments that can be treated and only certain types of tinnitus. In the comming years there might be an advancement in the technology of the HIFU-machines that makes the precision even better and so on.
That could make even more types of tinnitus treatable. We could find out more about certain types of tinnitus and realize that we can use this techonlogy to treat them after all, even though we now think that we can't. Or that instead of reducing the tinnitus by 50% in some people we can eradicate it completely in most of the cases. The sound that the machine produces might be able to lower (some with H had wories about this). The list goes on and on....
And who says that dr. Jeanmond is the best guy for the job. Maybe there is a genius doctor somewhere that just hasn't got his hands on one of these bad boys yet.
Stay positive people.
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