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I will vote for a politician that promises to get the government to pay for our hearing aids
 
Doug5 said:
I will vote for a politician that promises to get the government to pay for our hearing aids
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They already do pay for it. Just not through Medicare or healthcare as should be. However they do pay through VR and such.

What they need to do is make insurances cover hearing aids by at least 75% if not more..

If insurance will pay for viagra! They should pay for hearing aids.
 
I havent has any luck getting vr to buy me ha's.

Yeah, itd be nice if insurance covered them.
 
I did not know that. It still sux for the rest of us. What do the insurance companies call it? Cosmetic?
 
Doug5 said:
I did not know that. It still sux for the rest of us. What do the insurance companies call it? Cosmetic?
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I think they call it, saving money at expense of deaf and dumb people. I think they are hoping we're dumb enough to not know that it should be covered.

We ought to petition the government to show how unfair the rule is.

Maybe we ought to buy viagra and tell them "we can buy this with insurance but we can't buy hearing aids. How does that make sense to you?"
 
Doug5 said:
I did not know that. It still sux for the rest of us. What do the insurance companies call it? Cosmetic?
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yes i believe so. same for glasses
 
My health insurance through the school district that I work for paid up to $2,000 (one time only) for my new digital hearing aid. So there are some health insurance out there that do cover some of the expenses...I think I shelled out about $400.00 out of pocket. While $400 (rather than $2,400) doesn't seem much - it was hard for me since I'm a single mom...I could have used that $400 for other expenses.
 
I think part of the reason they are resistant to covering HA, is b/c they are afraid that everyone will opt for old person aids. Some of the dinkies only last a couple of years. They are also very prone to breaking.
I do think that they SHOULD be covered. I'm working on an article for the My Turn section of Newsweek about this.
 
I find it ironic that almost all insurances cover CI's, some even do bilateral, but almost none cover aids.
 
Yeah I know. I think it's b/c when CIs first became popular, insurance companies figured that it was safe, since only a small number of folks were elgiable to be implanted. I do think that if HA were covered, it might stop the folks who are more ambigious for being implanted, and then drive down health care costs.
 
faire_jour said:
I find it ironic that almost all insurances cover CI's, some even do bilateral, but almost none cover aids.
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I still think CI is part of hearing aids. You know the meaning of 'hearing aid' is a device that helps one to hear. CI fits the term as well. The insurance should pay for hearing aids.
 
deafdyke said:
Yeah I know. I think it's b/c when CIs first became popular, insurance companies figured that it was safe, since only a small number of folks were elgiable to be implanted. I do think that if HA were covered, it might stop the folks who are more ambigious for being implanted, and then drive down health care costs.
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They don't want to pay for hearing aids because of all that senior citizens needing hearing aids. If the insurances want to drive the cost down even further, they ought to support ASL for everybody! :D
 
Doug5 said:
I havent has any luck getting vr to buy me ha's.

Yeah, itd be nice if insurance covered them.
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Nor have I. In my case, I've not had much luck in getting DRS buy me a new HA; I had to go to the Lions for that.
 
Just to clarify before I get attacked..............I FULLY support people who get very little benifit from HA, or who have issues like severe tintituas/recruitment getting implanted.
 
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