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Comrade Weez@flyswatter or not https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/437225-high-school-robotics-team-builds-electric-wheelchair-for-2-year/
Insurance didn’t cover 2-year-old’s wheelchair so high school robotics team built one
A 2-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder that doesn’t allow him to walk needed an electric wheelchair that his parents insurance didn’t cover, so a high school robotics team built him one instead. The Farmington High School robotics team in Minnesota last year built 2-year-old Cillian Jackson a custom electric wheelchair with the…
@weezmgk The USA is a hellhole.
@flyswatter It can be, but a robotics club building a wheelchair for a 2 year old is not an example of that
@weezmgk the fact that the only way that child got a wheelchair is that a robotics team had to step in because the insurance company is a greedy monstrous institution shows that the US capitalist system needs to be burned to the ground. But that’s just me.
@flyswatter if the child were of school age (typ 5yo), the insurer would have been obligated to provide a wheelchair per Americans With Disabilities Act. I'm not sure it's any different anywhere else.