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>my power wheelchair costs north of $50k

What kind is it? Here in the UK the typical price I'm finding is ~£1000, with high end models ~£3000

https://www.uk-wheelchairs.co.uk/electric-wheelchairs-power-...

https://www.careco.co.uk/cat-wc09/powerchairs.htm

I use a Permobil F3 with a lot of additions. The price I mentioned is the insurance price in the US and in many cases self-pay will bring it down but it's often still prohibitively expensive. I had to self-pay for an add-on on my current chair and that was $2400 itself. Oftentimes in the US, manufacturers will only sell products through a licensed DME so you have to pay a markup there too.

Yes, I was clearly looking in the wrong places. I can see the Permobil F3 listed in it's base spec for ~£10,000 over here.

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