Chapter 874 - Stalled Negotiation (2/2)

Disregarding graphene and cloud technology for now, the significance of smart health offered critical meaning for the federal government.

Since the beginning of the Bama era, the Democratic Party had been actively promoting medical reforms to improve the domestic medical conditions. However, it was unfortunate that during the period, he encountered the largest fiscal deficit in the history of the UA, accounting for 12% of the GDP, and it was the highest proportion of the fiscal deficit to the total economic output since the Second World War. There was no money to push health care reform.

Moreover, the reform of the medical insurance system had always been one of the deepest divides between the Democrats and Republicans. The two parties disagreed on the reasons for the sharp increase in the cost of medical care in the country and the solutions to the problem.

The success of Beta-4 medical drones in Penglai caught the attention of all countries. In this Summit, a number of companies in the UA also planned to introduce the advanced medical drones.

For the Capital, while Beta-4 could not be helpful to ease the highest pharmaceutical prices in the world, but it could effectively reduce the cost of medical care for the UA people. If this kind of convenient and efficient drone could be introduced in clinics, UA citizens would be able to see the doctor as easily as calling 911. They would just need to make a phone call to bring the Beta-4 drone deployed in the community clinic to their home.

For companies, the cost of purchasing drones was significantly lower than paying for redundant doctors. For the federal government, the saving was equivalent to the large financial subsidy for medical treatment each year.

Although it would certainly be protested by the Medical Association, it would definitely be welcomed by all “people who are troubled by the difficulty of seeing a doctor.”

“You can sell drones completely without problems. The UA is a free market. As long as your products are safe, we will not set too many obstacles for you like some countries,” Pritzker said. “The same applies to graphene and cloud technology, but I don’t understand how this relates to your acquisition plan.”

Of course, it was for pricing rights, sales resources of those companies and some of the technologies that were of interest.

For example, Future Group wanted to sell the Beta-4 drones to major private hospitals. It would be impossible for Future Heavy Industrials to recruit and send out sales to negotiate door to door. This would not only be inefficient, but also very slow.

As far as expecting companies to come to buy their own products, the efficiency would be even lower. After all, not all companies were willing to risk changing their existing business model. Even though the graphene materials were excellent in all aspects, most companies were still making silicon-based electronic devices. Even if Intel bought a patent license from Jiang Chen, it did not completely stop the research and development for the higher performance silicon-based chip.

When Watt invented the steam engine, the textile factory in Great Britain didn’t change its equipment overnight. Even if it was late in the industrial revolution, no one would dare to say that the popularity of steam engines reached 100%.

Speculate first, if worked well on peers, and then adjust slowly. It was the safest approach.

In addition, unlike the Hummingbird drones, the Beta-4 was completely developed by scientists in the modern world, and its technical content was at most ahead. If other companies developed a similar product during this period, even if the performance did not reach the same level as the Beta-4, as long as with great sales team and a low selling price, it could still take a lot of market from Future Heavy Industrials.

Only by occupying the high ground of the market in the shortest time could profits be maximized!

Either seek collaborators or buy directly!

Future Group had the capital, and in order to grasp pricing power, Jiang Chen would certainly choose the latter.

From the Beta-4 drone alone, if Future Group could acquire a pharmaceutical company and use its existing partnership with major hospitals, as well as experience in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries. The promotion of the Beta-4 would definitely be much easier than if Future Group formed a new subsidiary from the beginning.

Graphene and cloud technology would follow the same principle.

It was precisely because of this that Jiang Chen’s negotiations with the Department of Commerce reached a stalemate.