Ear Q group’s founder Ed Keller, is so worked up about stopping Internet hearing aid sales that he has had a website created to organize opposition and petition legislators and bureaucrats at every level. Last month’s announcement, by Minnesota based United Health Care, that they had bought a hearing aid company, and were going to begin selling hearing aids direct to consumers over the Internet, has made him so irregular that he’s purchased another paid email push by “The Hearing Review” to get his message out about too much consumer choice.
In a clear attempt to rally the profession in defense of the gates, er patients, these folks argue that protecting patients includes banning their ability to purchase hearing aids over the Internet.
Ear Q Group Sponsors Site to Stop Internet Hearing Aid Sales
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Accelerating Changes in Hearing Aids & Delivery System
Accelerating changes in both hearing instruments, and their delivery system mean more benefits to the savvy consumer. I can think of no other industry where change occurs any faster than it does now in the field of Audioprosthology, and Hearing Health Care. No where, is Moore’s law anywhere more apparent than in the evolution of what we think of as hearing aids. The hearing aids in use today by most of the vast majority of hearing care professionals today bear little resemblance in overall functionally to the class A, B or D amplifier equipment I started with almost thirty years ago.
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