I wish! Nope--for the most part, most health insurance companies won't cover hearing aids. Now, when she was one year old and we weren't making much of an annual salary, she did get her first pair of analog hearing aids for free: it was through the state we lived in back then. Then we moved to another state and digital aids were recommended--we were convinced that she would hear so much better with digitals so we just HAD to get them--by that point, our annual salary had risen(not a lot but enough to bump us out of the "free coverage" group)--my extended family got together and donated money to us so that we could buy our daughter digital aids(total for two was about $6,000 back then!)(my grandmother donated a large part of that!). Well, here we are about 9 years later--live in yet another state and our annual salary LOOKS good even though times are very very tough right now--we don't qualify for ANY programs that are based on income levels(you know, they THINK we "make too much money" to deserve financial aid, but that is such a joke--you REALLY have to fall far below the poverty line to qualify for help in the U.S. these days!). Anyway--our current health insurance clearly states that hearing aids are NOT a covered expense, we do not qualify for any programs that help people below a certain income, and my entire extended family is pretty much "tapped out"--none of us can really do much to contribute to a large hearing aid fund right now. I am sure you are hearing a lot about the U.S. economy "across the pond"--well, a lot of us can tell you: it's bad, it's really really bad--and most of us in the "middle class" are suffering the most. We are just struggling to hang on, but there isn't any leeway for "extras"--in other words, we simply cannot afford to do things right now that hopefully we will be able to do in the future. Just some info from those of us "in the trenches"--the economy is keeping us from doing a LOT of things we really NEED to do but cannot afford to do right now!