Once it costs more to fix or it simply is unfixable, insurance companies and medicare are abliged to replace them even though they want to get 5 years from a powerchair (7 years now). I have over 8500 hours on my chair in under 4 years. I know it won't last 7 years. Cars get far less use and are not expected to perform on a daily basis with the consistancy that is demanded of a power wheelchair. My dads van gets less than 3 hours use a month. My sisters car gets less than 5 hours use a week. My sister gets a new car every six years. A wheelchair gets use that is most in common with cars belonging to traveling salespeople. I try to keep a backup chair but in actuality, I have wheelchair parts. That thing isn't going to work with new batteries. I've swiped 3 electro-mechanical actuators for use on the chair I use daily. The tires are dry rotted and the drive motors pull drastically to the left. I know a lot of you love your quickies, but the one I had burned the curcuit board after a few months and the actuators that controlled the back and legs quit after a little more than a year. It was hard to beat for range and speed, it was the add ons that always died. It took a month to find a circuit board that would control the extras on my quickie so, if I don't sing the wonders of that model, you know why. I still try to visit medicare offices regularly and rearrange furniture. Medicare doesn't seem to hire handicapped, and I don't consider drug and alchohol rehab to be handicapped. Being senselessly obese is not handicapped, it is the result of glutany and fits in the same catagory as emphisema and still smoking. If you weigh 300lbs. you need to start thinking about diet and exercise, not SSDI. The army doesn't give out medals for self inflicted wounds, why should society reward them? These people take our parking spaces, our jobs, and finally walk off with any respect that we earned by beating the odds and trying to live productive lives. john on anti biotics -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] New Chair
2 in 8 years and now a possible new one ??? Wow how can you swing that were the older chairs completely broken >>>>>> I have good private insurance and they told me each chair must be a minimum of 5 years old to even get a new one lol >> and many on this list say that medicaid and medicare is a pain to get a new chair thru. Dan ~LittleQuad~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'M ON MY 2ND QUICKIE IN JUST 8 YEARS...GUY CAME AND MEASURED FOR NEW CHAIR...IF ALL GOES WELL IT'LL HAVE ALL AND MORE........I'M HELL ON WHEELS AND THE CHAIRS ATTACHED... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned permobile to a DME that had them in stock and he said not to even think about them with medicare/medicaid. I've seen permobiles that are 20 years old and still in better shape than my 4yld invacare TDX3. And they still get parts for them! A little math says I could have had 1 permobile for 19,000 but to save money I've had 4 in just the last 20 years, none of them as nice as a permobile but average cost has been $13,500. Sooo, yea,,seems medicare may have wasted a mere $35,000. I can't imagine why they are running out of money? If that was a $35,000 bet I'd die in 5 years then I think it's time to tell them to stop gambling away tax payer money. john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 6:46 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] New Chair Medicare paid for mine or maybe 80%. Eric W Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:33 PM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] New Chair Good luck getting your chair in a timely fashion. It it so tiring waiting on something you need. How long did you have to wait between wheelchairs to get a new one. I hope I can get a new one before she retires. My supplier told me I could not get a new one until mine cost more to be repaired and a new one and that could be forever with a permobile. I still have insurance to my stepmom, but it seems like they are just as slow as Medicaid. My supplier told me that insurance pretty much follows Medicare ruling. I have had mine for years now. A lot of things are broken but not the price of the entire chair. Has anybody ever heard of Medicare/Medicaid paying for a Permobile.Just wondering. Dana Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.
