LA Designer: Stuart Karten, Obamacare and a Golden Age for Medical Device Design?

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Makers of “medical devices” have attacked Obamacare because they don’t like the tax it imposes. Not Stuart Karten. The LA-based designer says the Affordable Care Act has launched a golden era for medical device design.

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Makers of “medical devices” have attacked Obamacare because they do not like the tax it imposes. Not Stuart Karten. The LA-based designer says the Affordable Care Act has launched a golden era for medical device design. In this interview with DnA, he explains the creative impact of a much-criticized policy and shares some of the mind-bending products that are changing our relationship to our health.