> During the past decade, the risk of being maltreated by a personally set-up CPAP unit has been far, far smaller than the risk of not being treated at all.

There have been over 500 confirmed deaths due to the Philips CPAP. The number of unconfirmed deaths would be an order of magnitude higher, in my opinion.

Thing is, the CPAP issue could be argued for both sides:

"See how a small manufacturing defect could cause so many deaths? We definitely need to regulate this heavily!"

OR

"See how many people died due to Phillips because they didn't have alternatives?"