Britt Young

And while they are asleep, they are able to print multiple prosthetic limbs overnight.

But at the moment, the costs to them are still a bit higher than the traditional methods.

In the prosthetics space, it is very difficult to be approved for relatively new technologies.

And by relatively new, I mean...

within the last several decades.

For upper body prosthetics, insurance is fickle.

In my own experience, I try to get approved for a very cheap, very simply made plastic attachment for what is called an activity arm.

So this is not a chargeable electronic device.

This is just a kind of plug and play attachment.

I try to get approved for this to do weightlifting.

And the insurance company says, well, it's not necessary.

I think to myself, well, don't they want us to exercise?

Isn't that necessary?

And yet I can't be approved for these kinds of attachments.

So it's pretty difficult.

And the logic is not always clear.

And the experience between individuals is vast.

I was trying to possibly get a 3D printed arm from Open Bionics, which is a British firm that is now providing prosthetics internationally.

And

They're expanding in the United States, and yet I wouldn't be able to get my insurance to approve it.