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Author Re: Crystalens Gets Nod From Medicare
Ragnar

2006-03-24, 11:35 am

Stacy isn't qualified to make that determination.

The Crystalens certainly works very well for some people. There is a
better alternative called Restor now.

This FDA approval is a bit comical. Surgeons don't need to wait for
FDA approval before performing a procedure or offering lenses such as
the Crystalens. The FDA is so slow and incompetent that their only
real power lies in what they BAN. In fact.. I suspect they
intentionally delay approving things so that they can study a few
years of results on the human guinea pigs that have these things done
pre-approval.

Medicare isn't paying a dime for those lenses... so FDA approval
doesn't mean much.



On 23 Mar 2006 17:03:30 -0800, "serebel" <serebel@aol.com> wrote:

>W Stacy wrote:
>
>I don't think the Crystalens works very well
>if at all, and Medicare should not have approved it for that reason.
>
>w.stacy, o.d.
>
>
> One would have to be careful anyway especially if Medicare or other
>gov't agency approves something.
>Just because the government approves...............

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