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Hearing Aids Will Become More Affordable in the US From the article: *Hearing aid prices in the United States have always been ridiculously high. In fact, while hearing aids may cost as little as $200 per pair elsewhere in the world, we’ve had a completely different system here that led to our high prices: around $2,691 per pair on average — and usually not covered by health insurance.* *However, on August 16, 2022, the FDA finally cleared the way for over-the-counter sales of hearing aids.* *“The cost of hearing aids in the United States is higher by far than any other country on Earth because of our weird system of distribution that, thank goodness, is coming to an end,” says money expert Clark Howard. “So the prices have been trending down, but now they will basically collapse over the next year.”* The full article is here: https://clark.com/health-health-care/hearing-aids-available-over-the-counter/