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When the bass drops
I do agree that PEB won't immediately be affected by this change in government and ideology. It would be idiotic (but I guess anything is possible) for the election of Trump to result in a change to American medicines school of thought specific to bladder cancer treatment of "Let's stay with the cytology/cystoscopy approach and scrap all these new non-invasive innovations so that our best and brightest US urologists maintain their large revenues" or "We'll pursue the technology of American born-and-bred innovators, even though studies are showing a NZ-headquartered company has a superior test, as our new protectionist slant requires us to put American profits first."
I doubt the reactionary wheels of 'sending foreign companies packing' will be turning in a real hurry, considering the long-road and hoops that companies like PEB need to go through to get cut-through in the US system. PEB has already come a long way. There are other companies (US based) that offer similar technologies to PEB, and it would be a madness for a lot of this work to be undone, so I'm not in panic mode. Trump, although abrasive in rhetoric, will be reeled in somewhat by the Republican movement and won't be making the 'insane' decisions many people think he will.
As Minerbarejet said, how can something in the bladder cancer space, with the capacity to assist vast US citizens, be shown the door in the near future just because they were born and bred in NZ?