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cbzoiav | 1 year ago

Except the wheelchairs used in hospitals are to push patients short distances across hard flat floors.

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srockets|1 year ago

The OP isn't about hospital wheelchairs, but daily use wheelchairs. It's just most of the commenters here showing ignorance or ableism by suggesting the two are equivalent.

cbzoiav|1 year ago

I'm not saying otherwise - my comment reaffirms this. There are two separate things going on here -

- You can buy a reasonable wheelchair for moving people relatively short distances across flat surfaces for less than $1000. E.g those used in hospitals and for the partially mobile.

- You cannot currently buy a reasonable self propelled wheelchair for full time use for less than $1000 (give or take the manufacturer in the article).