Guys

Beware of hearing aid companies that say they offer discounts for Medicare and Blue Cross.

Medicare does not cover hearing aids. Blue Cross does not either, unless your policy specifically states that. Very, very few individual insurance policies cover hearing aids: the figure I once read was 4% of all policies.

The outfits that advertise Medicare/Blue Cross discounts/coverage are a scam. They lure people in by saying they can save them $XXX. Then they fit them with hearing aids that are at least one generation, perhaps two, behind current technology.

They buy them for a song since the aids are old technology. Folks wind up paying two or three times what the aids are worth, regardless of any "discount."


"The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubt" Bertrand Russell