“People with mild or moderate hearing loss could soon be able to buy hearing aids without a medical exam or special fitting, under a new rule being proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.”
37.5 million American adults have trouble hearing. For decades the prescription rule kept the price high and the market small. Congress ordered this change in 2017, and the FDA is only now proposing the rule, with 90 days of comment still to go. The people who profited from the delay will use every one of those days.