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Power wheelchairs are regulated (FDA) as medical devices.
by alistairSH 3y ago
Power wheelchairs are regulated (FDA) as medical devices.
- TechWorld01 3y agoI can buy an electric wheelchair at Walmart for $750. What is the issue?
- mcmcmc 3y agoYou can also buy pharmaceuticals at Walmart. What is your argument?
- happyopossum 3y agoThat's a powered scooter, not an electric wheelchair. They may look the same to a layperson, but they're not - one is highly regulated and has a lot of people making a lot of money off them, the other is a scooter.
- deadeye 3y agoSome of these wheelchairs are 75k. They're custom made to your body size for maximum comfort and the features are customized to your disability. These aren't off the shelf mobility products. Each one is assembled to specification.
- alistairSH 3y agoAs the sibling comments noted, we're talking about bespoke wheelchairs for people with severe mobility disability (MS, ALS, etc). Things like Stephen Hawking's chair.
- Fricken 3y agoStill, they shouldn't cost more than a high end Ebike.
- alistairSH 3y agoI don’t know what the median/average price is for these, only the range. Bit, a high end e-bike is $12-$15k. Which also seems ridiculous to me. And I’m a cyclist with several nice bikes (none of which were more than $7k).
- mikestew 3y agoAnd I’m a cyclist with several nice bikes (nine of which were more than $7k). "Nine", or did you mean "none"? I'm just checking if it was a typo, or if I should be jealous. :-)
- alistairSH 3y agoNone. Only 4 in the basement that belong to me right now. 4 more as the wife’s.
- sokoloff 3y agoAnything custom will cost more than a similar complexity mass-produced item.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoOooh, I missed this distinction.