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To: pfflier

I am not disabled either but am retired on SS. Even without a service connected disability I still have 100% VA medical care.


33 posted on 06/16/2016 9:56:24 PM PDT by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: eastforker; pfflier
I am not disabled either but am retired on SS. Even without a service connected disability I still have 100% VA medical care.

Same here I just got my second set a couple weeks ago from VA and I am not service related disability. However if you have a copy of the Hearing Conservation Program program or the diagnoses still bring it with you both to the VA Doc and the Audiologist. I did in my case. Being denied a VA Disability Claim doe not disqualify you from using VA health systems including Audiology.

It can take up to a year though pfflier because you first have to see a VA clinic doctor for a referral. But IMO V.A. runs the best Audiology Clinic System in the nation in terms of quality of the hearing aids and dependability.

A warning. Stay away from Hearing Aid Stores offering Free Hearing test and sell you hearing aids especially if the person testing you is not a licensed Audiologist. In some stores in some states Licensed Hearing Aid Dispensers test and sell hearing aids. As such they are not qualified to diagnose actual hearing loss causes. I got ripped off for $5K at an Audibel store by such an arrangement. I went to VA after that and theirs were far better and all testing done by a Board Certified Audiologist.

I have Phonak brand from VA the one piece that sits just inside the ear type. There are three types. Over the ear with a tube with an ear mold going in the ear canal, in the ear, and in the canal hearing aids. VA will also send you free batteries and do all repairs as needed. You have about 4 months to try the hearing aids out and if you don't like the type or they don't fit you can get them replaced with new ones.

38 posted on 06/16/2016 11:04:45 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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