Mask purchase problem

They do fine...no worries.

Some have already folded; (Medicare competitive bidding)
I suspect that's where the cushions and pillows on Amazon and Ebay come from.

Hang Fire wrote:

If the DMEs can't make a profit, maybe they need to get out of the business.

Oh, that would be great for us CPAPers. Let a bunch of the DMEs go out of business and see how high the prices will go and how low the service will go.

Now, THAT is ridiculous. The manufacturers control the wholesale prices and the government controls the reimbursement rates/amounts. In fact, the feds are already letting "a bunch of the DMEs go out of business". They've had to go through bidding processes over the last couple of years. The ones that qualified are on the list of approved vendors and the ones that didn't aren't. The big outfits are mostly the ones that are on the list. So, you see, the feds have already been doing what you're fearful of.


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So it's good for us if the government does it?

If the government is doing it, we are scr00d.
Not much we can do about it, but work out how to get along, whatever happens.
Stock up, boil the little suckers, whatever it takes.