Meghan McCarty Carino

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We're back with writer and UC Berkeley lecturer Britt Young.

So what do you think would need to change in order for 3D printing to actually deliver on the promise of cheaper prosthetics?

The American healthcare system obviously has its own idiosyncrasies, but I'm curious if sort of on a global level you think that 3D printing will ever deliver on, you know, the promise of reducing the cost of these devices.

So bottom line, do you think that this technology will successfully bring costs down at some point?

That was writer Britt Young.

We've linked to her article about the complicated economics of 3D printed prosthetics at our website, marketplacetech.org.

Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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