Thanks! So the VA has it’s own repair setup? Do they own their own chairs and lend them out?
Disposable, ey? I guess Medicare isn’t paying for them. So these are guys you’re working with? Are they on Medicare?
About the electrical stuff, that’s good to know. But apparently the manufacturers are getting in the way of other people doing the repairs, like John Deere and tractors. There’s work here in Colorado to allow a right to repair for wheelchairs. Unbelievable.
That would be very cool.
But as I was telling Napalm, apparently wheelchair manufacturers have tried to block repairs, so people are working on laws to allow the right to repair. And there are issues with authorization (which might not apply to volunteer work) and work quality standards, which I don’t understand. Anyway, I’m trying to learn up.
I’ll have to ask for more details I don’t know that they repair anything but more they have a 3 or 4 year replacement policy for anything required though the VA care. Despite the condition it’s in, gets a new one. Not sure if other insurance does something simlar.
Sorry, I missed your reply somehow. Thanks!
I have to say, that replacement policy sounds wasteful, especially since people are having trouble getting their chairs repaired. Or it seems like! I’m still figuring that part out.
Thanks again!
So I suspect it’s more about a warranty issue - might as well replace it will under warranty, take the old chairs and sell them/send them to 3rd world or etc.
Not sure what they do with them but I know one guy that kept his last chair - figuring he might as well have a hot spare. They let him.
Again I suspect there is more to the insurance angles of this than just repair device.
Thanks!
So I looked back at your comments and I didn’t see where you talked about insurance. You mean liability insurance for manufacturers?
No Insurance for the owners. My buddy tim for example his chair is covered fully by his medicare/aid/VA benefit whatever it is. He got his injuries while on duty and can’t hold himself up to walk hence the chair. His insurnace pays for it 100%, and he gets a new one every so often. What they do for that I don’t know but his health insurnace pays for it - or most of it - something like that.
Another guy at work has an electric one - again he’s on VA too - but gets a device on year X, and after some period of time I think it’s also 4 years get a new device.
What they do with the old ones I’m not 100% sure. SO I mean medical/aid insurance not insurance for the maker, repair people.
Oh, gotcha. Thanks again!