A Holocaust survivor with the use of one arm and one leg who moved to Israel at the age of 17 has been denied a power wheelchair by the Health Ministry in Israel.
"Despite the difficulties faced by Michal - who hid from the Nazis when they stormed his native Czechoslovakia and moved to Israel in 1949, at the age of 17 - the ministry has rejected his request for an electric wheelchair. Such wheelchairs, it contends, are provided only to people under the age of 65, and only if they are active outside the home.
"It's not logical," said Michal, who has taken a loan to finance an electric wheelchair but is having a hard time meeting the payments. "The older a person is, the harder it is for him to get around outside. What, from the age of 64 I have to be a prisoner in the home?"
Via Haaretz.com
Reminds me of the Medicare In Home Restriction on wheelchairs our country presently has which keeps people prisoners in their home and the Medicare Independent Living Act which has been drafted to address such issues.
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