The IBOT is Dead!

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Yet another thing wrong with the healthcare system if you ask me. A fantastic, life changing product and then Medicare decides it's not worth it for the disabled?

Medicare didn't say it wasn't worth it, they said that the people who need wheelchairs don't need THIS wheelchair. They can live a normal life with a wheelchair that doesn't go up and down stairs or raise them to standing height. You don't have to have stairs in your house and if you don't have stairs why do you need a wheelchair that goes up and down stairs? Buildings are supposed to be wheelchair accessible nowadays, so why do they need chairs that go up stairs if you can get around with out stairs?

Now im not saying that Medicare is right, but i can see the reason they don't want to fork out $22,000 dollars for a device that isn't really needed.

I have to say that if i ever have the need for a wheel chair i would totally
want one of these because i find that the "raising you to eye level" with "normal" people is the best aspect of the chair not the going up stairs.

If the makers of the Ibot found a way to make them more economically friendly these chairs would be the norm, but until they do people are going to have to continue to use the devices that they can afford and that their insurance companies will help pay for.