Dave Balderstone wrote:
In article om,
boorite wrote:

But seriously, I wonder if maybe the high price of adaptive aids has
something to do with the mind-numbing liability involved in selling
such products to the public, not only because such devices are
inherently safety-critical, but because that public contains persons
who will take a big wobbly cup of hot coffee and put it between their
legs while driving and then blame someone else when they parboil their
genitals. If a person can dramatically narrow his reproductive options
using only a cup of ordinary coffee, imagine what he can do with a pair
of crutches and a flight of stairs, or, God help us, an electric
wheelchair and a revolving door. I imagine that being in that business
is an unending legal nightmare.

Maybe it has something to do with the attitude "Oh, no problem.
Insurance will pay for it."

In my experience, the insurance companies do their best not to
reinforce that attitude by not actually paying for expensive things, if
they can help it.