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We have insurance for that.
When you get your new hearing aids, you can pay somewhere near $100 for the insurance and they will replace one lost hearing aid for free.

Only one, so if some senile duffer can't remember , where he put them, he is out of luck.

Burnham, I paint mine schocking pink with nail polish.
Makes them WAY easier to find when I drop one outdoors.

 

[Burnham]

B, didn’t some regulation get abolished to bring to cost down? Maybe, if you have to replace them, they will be cheaper? At that price though, they should last a lifetime. Providing you don’t misplace them

Some sort of regs about no longer needing a prescription to get them, I think? I could have that wrong. Didn't make sense to me, because you don't need a prescription to get them to my knowledge. If I did, I was not aware of it. Not sure how that sort of change might lower cost much anyway. A few gold-plated health insurance policies cover some or even most of the cost, but most do not. Not mine.

Life expectancy is 5 or maybe 7 years, I was told when I bought mine. Mostly beyond that repairs get untenable because the manufacturers quit making parts, and have moved on to newer models with better tech changes.

 

[Burnham]

I found this article online. Some explanation.

Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aids—What to Know | NCOA.org

This guide covers everything you need to know about over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. Our audiology experts explain OTC hearing aids and how to buy them.

www.ncoa.org

 

[lxskllr]

I guess you guys wear hearing aids cause of chainsaws? Seems like no one wore hearing protection back in the day.

 

[Burnham]

For most of my working life I did use hearing protection, but not 100%. There are times when I felt I needed to be able to hear some feedback from the tree as the cut progresses. Before my working life with the USFS, I ran chainsaws a bit without plugs or muffs, but I wasn't cutting much at all in those years.

I was a competitive shotgunner in my teens and early 20's. Never wore hearing protection, and I fired many many thousands of rounds of 20, 16, and 12 gauge over a tenish year period. Chainsaws didn't help, but I expect the shooting is the root cause of my partial deafness now.

 

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“Hey youuu guyyyys”!!😂🤣😂🤣

 

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There needs to be some glass on that rag.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Hey Burnam....

 

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