Reporting by Lise Hamlin
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In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published the Report, Hearing Health Care for Adults – Priorities for Providing Access and Affordability. In that Report, they noted:
Hearing is a vital human sense that is important to communication and health and can affect quality of life. Yet for a variety of reasons, many people with hearing loss do not seek out or receive hearing health care. Estimates of hearing aid use are that 67 to 86 percent of people who may benefit from hearing aids do not use them, and many hearing assistive technologies as well as auditory rehabilitation services are not fully utilized. Long seen as an issue for individuals (and to some extent their families and friends), there is a growing recognition that hearing loss is a significant public health concern that can be addressed by actions at multiple levels. https://www.nap.edu/resource/23446/Hearing-RiB.pdf
In 2017, Congress passed the....
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