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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A big trend is refusing to wear hearing aids or refusing to get checked and needing hearing aids. Why are we paying so much Medicare for boomers again?[/quote]

It isn’t a trend. Medicare and most suplemental insurance retirees use does NOT cover hearing aids or covers a very small amount like $300.  Hearing aids can cost up to $6500 and to have to remember to charge them every night. They have to be programmed correctly and if you also wear glasses they can be uncomfortable. If you have dexterity problems they also can be tricky to properly insert.

I took my mom to Costco and she got hearing aids and she rarely wore them. Then years later when it was so noticeable her hearing was awful and her TV was so loud she couldn’t hear her phone ringing I found out there are insertable hearing aids that you wear for around 8 to 10 weeks then you go back to the audiologist and get a new pair like disposable contact lenses. You can’t see them when they are inserted so my mom loved it because no one can tell she wears hearing aids.

https://www.phonak.com/en-us/hearing-devices/hearing-aids/lyric

Only 10% of audiologist are trained to insert them and you have to pay a yearly fee. I think my mom pays around $3600 a month. She didn’t want to pay at first but luckily in several states there is a free 30 day trial. $300 a month is worth being able to hear!

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So ignorant prior PP should take her ageism and shove it.[/quote]

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