Reply #64: Grrr, do NOT get me started on insurance and hearing aids!

[liberalhistorian]

I've had to wear hearing aids most of my adult life, since I was twenty, and no insurance I know of pays one red cent for hearing aids. Medicaid is one of the few insurances that do and even it only pays for one hearing aid (wear them in both ears). And they ain't cheap, either, we're talking thousands of dollars for each aid. I'm still paying off the pair I have now that I got over six years ago, and they're starting to wear down, as they usually do after five or six years. It pisses me off beyond measure that insurance companies don't even consider hearing aids at all. If you don't have the money upfront or aren't approved for credit or financing, you're shit out of luck. Period. Even if you need them to function at a job, as I do.