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Groups Call Warren’s Hearing Aid Bill a ‘Big Government Ploy’ to Increase Regulation – By Brent Sher l May 9 2017
More than 20 conservative organizations stated their opposition to proposed legislation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) that would make hearing aids available over-the-counter, calling it a “big government ploy to create more regulations.”
The opposition was stated in a letter to Republican senator Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who chairs the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that is set to review the legislation on Wednesday. The groups, led by Frontiers of Freedom, the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and the Conservative Leadership PAC, say that the legislation will make sound amplification devises “more expensive and highly regulated.”
The groups argue that the legislation would pull all personal sound amplification products (PSAPs), which can currently be bought at a variety of stores by customers without medical hearing loss, into the highly regulated hearing-aid category.
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