I am in the 20% that’s been referred to. Do I think aids are overpriced. Of course I do. Thank God I have insurance. At the same time that tiny little device opens a whole world to me that otherwise wouldn’t exist, at all. It’s because of that which makes the price a little easier to deal with. Even so every time I buy new aids I feel guilty thinking this money could be better spent elsewhere and I should just deal with my loss. I think everyone walks out of the building wearing new aids thinking they spent too much money
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No better place to spend bux. Without the aids, you would cut off people and experiences that just would not be possible. I think it is a quality of life issue. If the VA didn’t give mine, I would absolutely pay for them…happily…Nothing better than hearing the soft voices of the grand children…
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Nobody disputes the benefits received from wearing aids. What is being questioned is whether those that need them are being taken advantage of
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I really don’t know the answer to
that. Probably. It is one thing that I would like about Social Medicine…I believe folks have the absolute right to be able to hear!..WTG British commonwealth!
@danhuddleston: Don’t cheer the Commonwealth too loudly. We don’t have socialized hearing or vision care in Canada, not to mention dental!
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Whoops!..My bad! I thought all the commonwealth countries had good social medical. I stand corrected…Mea maxima culpa!
Dan
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I mean, I was taken for emergency surgery a few years back by ambulance, transferred between hospitals, seen by 4 paramedics, five doctors and countless nurses, kept in the hospital for 4 days, and I only had to pay $45 to supplement the first ambulence ride. So Canada is decent. But yeah, we have a ways to go on vision, hearing and dental.
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I agree @Neville. Was not meaning to denigrate Canada (after all, I wore the uniform). But we make people poor who don’t have insurance for vision, dental, and hearing.
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Our health plan in Canada has deteriorated. Indications are:
- many new residents in Toronto can’t get a family physician. (think how bad it is to find a family doc if you live anywhere that’s remote!)
- nurses work horrible hours! And then along comes C19
- there aren’t enough nurses and they’re poorly treated
- we don’t have enough hospitals in major centres/think what it’s like to live in an Atlantic or Northern Province
Drifted a pretty good way from this forums topic.
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At 83, I’m playing a “Penney’s binary game”. That is, since my HAs are over 6 yrs. old, I don’t know which is coming first, new, COSTLY aids, or the OTC, cheaper ones that fit my budget.
Being on a budget effects my choice.
Does anyone at all have any idea when the OTC aids will be available.
I don’t want to use ebay or Costco, but my question is: Should I keep waiting, and for how long?
(I could probably go for as long as a year without HAs, since I have moderate hearing loss and a very docile life style)
Any advice? (what I really want to do is go into CVS, pick up my medicine and shop for aids - somehow in shadows of my brain, that is a nice dream to have)
Your right ear is beyond a moderate hearing loss so I suspect you would not be happy with the OTC and the hearing would feel unbalanced. I don’t know what the return privileges will be with the OTC, you could always try once they are available but I think you would do better with traditional hearing aids.
You’ll find these suitable for your loss, basically are OTC by Bose, the Bose Sound Control Hearing Aids, a few members have used them with good results, at $850 they could be in your budget.
Use the search button from right here on hearingtracker, to help you find out more information.
https://forum.hearingtracker.com/search?q=Bose%20SoundControl%E2%84%A2%20Hearing%20Aids
Thank you for your service. My Father was career Navy. Lived in Halifax a lot, and my late Sister and my Brother were born there.
@DaveL: Thank you, Dave. It was my great pride and privilege to serve our country in uniform (many also serve in civilian capacities, too). I appreciate your recognition.
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One of our neighbours was Terry Goddard. He put the torpedo in the Bismark’s rudder. He passed away recently. Navy too…