Hearing Aids 1000 » insurance http://www.hearingaids1000.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:52:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Long wait for hearing aids in England http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/long-wait-for-hearing-aids-in-england.shtml http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/long-wait-for-hearing-aids-in-england.shtml#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:17:42 +0000 Jason http://hearingaids1000.com/blog/?p=97 Based on an article written a few years ago, there is a horribly long wait for hearing aids in England. The wait can be as long as four years for patients who qualify. The BSHAA has learned that over a 200 weeks at a hospital in Wales. This is just not acceptable. I am certain that these individuals could use their own money to purchase directly from the manufacturers but this makes no sense. They are paying taxes at a level that should earn them fast access to health care and the tools they need including hearing aids.

Health insurance is a massive problem around the world and this goes to show that access to hearing aids is being slowed on a global level. This 200 week wait for hearing aids in England was from over 3 years ago. I am scared to imagine how long the wait is now. Do any of our English readers have insight into how the system is performing now?

]]> http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/long-wait-for-hearing-aids-in-england.shtml/feed 0 Wired Magazine takes a hard look at hearing aids http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/wired-magazine-takes-a-hard-look-at-hearing-aids.shtml http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/wired-magazine-takes-a-hard-look-at-hearing-aids.shtml#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:35:12 +0000 Jason http://hearingaids1000.com/blog/?p=46 In a very hard hitting and often accurate article, Wired magazine lets out a load of frustration on the world of hearing aids. In a nutshell they ask – why do glasses work so well to improve vision, cost less than $200, have unchanged technology and are covered by insurance usually WHEN none of that is true for hearing aids?

Hearing aid sticker shock is not uncommon as Wired magazine points out, they can often fun over $3,000. Additionally, hearing aid technology does not improve the situation and is very rarely covered by insurance.

Why are hearing aids so expensive? Wired points out in this article that most all parts of the hearing aid are created from scratch eliminating any benefits from the economy of scale. Additionally, microphones used by hearing aids need to be unidirectional to be good. This adds to the cost as well.

Final shot are the ‘air-triggered’ batteries that begin giving off power once the tab is removed. This is brutal on cost to the users.

All the while, insurance companies are not helping because the problem and need for hearing aids is so massive. Over 30 million Americans could use a hearing aid.

Hearing aids are wonderful but could use a great deal of improvement in many areas.

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