Britt Young

Britt Young is the writer and UC Berkeley lecturer interviewed in 3D printing was supposed to disrupt prosthetic costs. It hasn’t.. The source says she has used a prosthetic arm throughout her life, which makes her discussion of 3D-Printed Prosthetics both reported and personally grounded.

Young’s core contribution is to separate prosthetic access from a narrow manufacturing-cost story. She argues that low-cost printed devices can be uncomfortable or fragile, professional additive manufacturing remains expensive, and access often turns on Prosthetic Insurance Coverage, Assistive Device Classification, and skilled fitting.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech and Megan McCarty-Corino - interview context.
• 3D-Printed Prosthetics - technology frame she evaluates.
• Prosthetic Insurance Coverage, Assistive Device Classification, and Prosthetic Fitting Constraint - access constraints emphasized in the episode.
• Open Bionics - 3D-printed prosthetic firm she considered but could not get covered by insurance.