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2022-08-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-
You heard it here first! Biden announces FDA has cleared the way for hearing aids to be available over the counter in stores without a prescription
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The FDA said the new regulation cuts red tape by creating a new class of hearing aids that don't require a medical exam or prescription

  • Biden statement said US families would save $3,000

  • VP Kamala Harris, who is in Hawaii, issued a videotaped statement saying the change 'will make it easier for millions of Americans with hearing loss

  • FDA estimates that nearly 30 million adults could potentially benefit from hearing aids, but only about 1/5 of people with hearing problems use them
Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 I've never ever needed a "prescription" to get a hearing aid. The most recent ones I bought cost approximately $52 each and work just fine. Yes, they don't have fancy programmable equalizers or Bluetooth, but they let me hear the frigging refrigerator running from a room away before I turned them down to a sensible level. The only thing I wish they had was an announcement that the battery is about to die like the old overpriced one I had. But that's not that big a deal.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-17 07:33||   2022-08-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank President Trump for this.
Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-08-17 07:33||   2022-08-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 'Eh what?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-08-17 15:54||   2022-08-17 15:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Lots of Costcos have hearing aid centers where you can get tested for free and fitted for a fraction of the price from an audiologist...
Posted by Tyranysaurus Uleash1642 2022-08-17 16:55||   2022-08-17 16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe I don't want to hear everything.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-17 19:50||   2022-08-17 19:50|| Front Page Top

#6 That makes you a man Abu, ask my wife
Posted by Beavis 2022-08-17 20:05||   2022-08-17 20:05|| Front Page Top

00:52 Skidmark
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