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Nope, can't say "Restraint of Trade" but what can be said is "smart". CH and O&M figured out they could make more money selling OEM devices than reprocessed. It was their (CH and O&M) business decision-and a smart one. It is a free country so I guess the distributors saw something in it for them.
Stryker stepped into a pile when they bought Ascent. JNJ is a big ass ant hill. Keep kicking it and they will beat you with a thousand tiny bites. Heaven help the reprocessors if they put Covidien/Valleylab in their crosshairs too.
