hey everybody how's it going just when
you thought the production quality on
this channel couldn't get any worse
i gave you reverbing audio and some of
the worst white balance in existence i
i'm working on it i'll fix it eventually
i promise over the next few weeks so one
of the things that i wanted to discuss
with you today is medical right to
repair and some of our potential
strategies going forward in certain
states for any of you who are curious
why i don't say specific states specific
names of specific companies it's because
any time we have a lead of even this
small i don't want to let the opposition
know where or how it's going on because
they have a lot more money again we have
seven or nine hundred thousand they have
tens of hundreds of millions that they
can throw into all different types of
theater and lobbying tactics so i'm
going to be somewhat vague here and
hopefully
you're okay with this
there are certain states where there is
widespread opposition to a general right
to repair bill however there may be less
objection if it is less broad more
narrow in scope let's say
medical and there are also states where
there is a really really strong lobby
whether it's associations for hospitals
associations in the medical industry or
hospitals themselves that are saying
listen man we would save 10 to 20
million a year if we were able to fix
more equipment at our hospitals and
we're willing to put a few hundred
thousand or a few million on the table
to support efforts to make that happen
let's get right to repair done where if
i constrict the bill to only being
medical it has a chance of getting
passed whereas if i leave it where it
has you know farm equipment consumer
electronics automotive and everything
else the chances of it passing are slim
to none and while i can go out there and
beat my chest and ra ra ra at the end of
the day there's a fairly good chance
that well you're 99 certain t that this
loses so i'm thinking of potentially
being open to the idea of in certain
states having a broad bill and in
certain states having a narrow one and
then seeing how this works so then this
way i can kind of get an idea which
strategies work and which strategies
don't work because there are many
different states to do this and it's not
like you know if you fail you fail
altogether because we're not really
doing a lot at the federal level a lot
of this is at the state level and one of
the things that i think may be
interesting is if we actually do manage
to get something passed in an area like
in the medical industry that the safety
and security arguments that get made for
cell phones and laptops really kind of
go into the sewer at that point because
if you have a right to repair bill that
is being utilized by hospitals to be
able to fix their equipment that is used
to
save and sustain human life and nothing
bad is happening then it's really
difficult to make the argument that
right to repair for your cell phone or
for your refrigerator or for anything
else is going to have such dire
consequences and i think that if a
medical right to repair bill were to be
pushed through if that were to be pushed
through and actually work and
functioning you know the hospitals
weren't all going on fire and people
were in mass dying as they sat in the
waiting room that
people would be a little bit more open
to the idea that politicians would be a
little bit more open to the idea and
that whole safety security safety
security it's going to be unsafe people
can die
would start to fade away i was speaking
with somebody on a conference call the
other day and again don't want to say
who but they work at a hospital where
they have to fix medical equipment and
it's really really depressing to hear
that they go through a lot of the same
stuff that i go through when working on
stuff like macbooks so there'll be
exclusivity agreements the manufacturer
has with certain parts companies and
they'll say listen don't make this part
available don't make this thing
available to anybody who asks so he'll
have to call them and say yo i need this
part and they'll go yeah we can't sell
this to you and i go okay what else can
you sell to me and i go well i've got
this thing here and it's definitely not
the same thing just missing this one
connector you know it's i can sell you
this but it's not the same thing as what
you're asking for just missing this one
connector that you would have to
desolder from the old one and re-solder
the new one and then everything will
work just fine but that's definitely not
the case and then he'll go okay thank
you for that not being the case i'll
take you know i'll take i'll take 10.
and it's just
a big part of this what makes this so
frustrating is when i'm speaking with
somebody who's 50 or 60 years old who
has a good education 30 years experience
in the field and he has to act like he
is doing something wrong or illegal or
improper you know there's one thing my
fourth grade teacher told me is that
regardless of what the rules are she
would say like you know we got in
trouble she said you know when you're
doing something that's wrong in your
heart you know when you're doing
something that you're not supposed to do
louis you know when you're doing
something you're not supposed to do even
if i didn't necessarily explicitly say
you can't do that you know it and that's
why you should be getting in trouble and
that's why i would get punished or you
know sent to the principal's office or
whatever and it's very interesting when
you know again you're dealing with
somebody who's fixing equipment that is
literally used to save human life we're
fixing that equipment versus replacing
it can save them over 10 million dollars
a year and by the way the inability to
do that is partially why health care is
so expensive in this country right now
and they are
very very clearly and obviously trying
to skirt around the
artificial restrictions and barriers
that have put in place by the
manufacturer to keep them from doing
their job where they have to say okay
what part can i buy this one and they
have to have this coded talk on the
phone it's like this is definitely not
the same thing as this just missing the
connector it's so ridiculous and it's so
asinine and you know i i feel bad that
they are
but they have to do this at all
you know at some point so much of what
we're fighting for
isn't even the ability to do our job
it's just the ability to do our job with
some basic sense of dignity to where
you can go home and know you know when i
did i'm doing what i'm supposed to do
i'm not breaking the law i'm not
breaking the rules i'm not acting like a
wise ass fourth grader in mrs
friedland's class to try to get away
with something i'm not supposed to do
because at the end of the day we're not
doing something that we're not supposed
to be doing we're doing something that
creates value to society we're doing
something that makes the world a better
place we're doing something that makes
people happy we're doing something that
makes people money we're doing something
that reduces waste
and it's really weird to feel like we
are doing the wrong thing like we are
sneaking around some a rule that mrs
freeland made just to screw with her to
be able to
get access to the ability to repair
parts for a device at a hospital so what
i'm thinking of doing is in the states
where there's a really really really
really really really really strong
hospital lobby that wants to get this
done of carving out agriculture carving
out automotive carving out consumer
electronics and making it strictly
medical because we have strong
coalitions there and then
limiting the bill to medical and seeing
what happens and if it winds up getting
no further than it would have if the
bill were broad then at least at that
point i know okay for other states you
know what screw it we're not going with
that narrow strategy we will make the
bill broad they're going to oppose it
anyway they're going to stonewall it
anyway so no point but if with a with
very very strong and very very
well-funded partners we are able to push
through something like that my idea is
once you have a medical right to repair
bill and people are fixing things in
hospitals left and right and that you
know the mortality rate doesn't go up by
five times as a result of people
actually being able to fix stuff that
next to you we come back or in another
state we say you know when they're
saying that there's all this horrible
safety and security concerns and people
can fix a cell phone well in this state
people are fixing medical equipment
people are fixing equipment that is
utilized when it comes to i don't know
monitoring people after an operation or
all this other stuff and we don't have a
single adverse effect as a result of
that if there are no adverse effects as
a result of people fixing medical
equipment in a hospital then why are we
using the safety and security argument
when it comes to consumer electronics
that's part of what's kind of going on
in my head right now so i'm kind of
curious what you all think do you think
that it would be giving up that it would
be selling people out to in certain
areas narrow a bill in scope to where
it's only affecting one particular
industry or do you think it's a good
idea to be able to get your foot in the
door by getting one industry's bill
passed and then using that to as
leverage to try to get more bills passed
in the future i'm very curious what you
all think i'm very curious what you
think of this strategy
one of the particular lobbyists is a fan
of this strategy and i you know seems
like he does good work i usually defer
to people that have a little bit more
expertise than i do and but i'm kind of
curious what you all think and i want to
kind of loop you in on the process i
can't say the state i can't say the
association i can't say the name of the
hospital because again i actually want
to have even the tiniest minuscule
chance of actually getting something
done before everybody else swoons on
over there
but just let me know what you think in
the comments down below that's it for
today and as always i hope you learned
something i will i promise you i will be
at some point getting some actual
lighting as well as um good lighting as
well as some uh acoustic foam with the
adhesive once i find out if it's
actually true that the the adhesive i
was looking at doesn't mess up the paint
so that these videos don't look and
sound like anymore from my new
location but i do got a nice view out
the window you don't see it in this
video but you can see it in the last one
it's a nice view
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