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Vital Mobility is your one-stop shop for wheelchairs, hospital beds, lift chairs, scooters and much more. Visit our Showroom, give us a call or shop online with total confidence, top brands like Drive Medical, Pride Mobility, Invacare, AMG, Golden Technologies are right at your fingertips. Daily Living/ Rehab SuppliesTo learn about our efforts to improve the accessibility and usability of our website, please visit our Skip to section navigation> Skip to main contentSeverely disabled senior Don Smith has been told a new custom-fitted wheelchair will cost as much as $30,000. But Toronto Sun readers, on the Internet five minutes, found one for reporter Chris Doucette’s Uncle Don at one-third the cost? How could this be? Could a government, mandated purchasing monopoly agreement have something to do with it? Yes, the same basic chair Don needs is online for as low as $500 and as high as $11,000 from the manufacturer. Even with special retrofits, customs, duty and shipping costs, there’s no need for $30,000.
The problem is if one is to accept provincial funding for such a chair, they can’t go ahead and make this purchase based on the best price. In the tilted wheelchair end of the business, there is a special contract in Ontario that says all purchases must go through just one company — Shoppers’ Home Health, a division of Shopper’s Drug Mart. “As crazy as it may sound, it’s just the way it is in Ontario,” said one dealer of such equipment. “There is no competition and there is no way around it.” Currently, under the Assisted Devices Program, the taxpayer is on the hook for 75% of the purchase which seems helpful. But with 25% of $30,000 being $7,500, it’s not exactly easy to come up with for a senior with cerebral palsy. The real question is would the price of this special health equipment be so exorbitant if there was proper competition? Now I have been warned that this is a complicated industry and each claim is unique as is each chair. But what is not complicated is finding solutions for thousands of dollars less.
Auditor General Jim McCarter dealt with this very issue in 2009 — calling out waste in the multi-million dollar Assisted Devices Program thanks to 80% mark-ups with no chance for competitive opportunity. “If someone comes to you and says you can buy a used wheelchair for $1,000 and you have to pay $250 or you can buy a brand new wheelchair at $5,000 and your share is $2,500, I know what I’d buy,” McCarter told Toronto Sun reporters Antonella Artuso and Jonathan Jenkins. A source tells me there is a warehouse in Scarborough with more than $2-million worth of used equipment — much of which is in good condition and reusable in the interest of being green and cost saving. “The thing is, it’s not in anyone’s interest to have any of that utilized because then people would not make the major sale and profit that goes with it,” said the insider. “As a monopoly it’s much smarter to eat the $2-million worth of old product and make four times more with new stuff.”
Susan Eng, of the Canadian Association for Retired Persons (CARP), said government “should look at every possible way to ensure there is the best price and service” available. There is a right to make a profit but not at the expense of our vulnerable disabled. Clearly with what has happened with Don Smith, there needs to be another reminder. Shoppers’ did not return my call but Ontario health ministry spokesman Neala Barton said the exclusive deal was won through a bidding process that ensured the lowest costs to the taxpayer. But what appears to have happened, instead, is it has created a monopoly market which means there is no competition for price and, perhaps equally as important, no competition for service. The contract is said to be up for tender next year but the whole concept should be eliminated. Certainly, at very least, if Health Minister Deb Matthews is part of a re-elected McGuinty government, there would be some conflict declared since her brother-in-law and former Ontario premier David Peterson is listed on Shoppers’ website as a director.