By now we know Reese Benton is deaf. Audiology was poorly presented in the previous episode including the testing, the presentation of findings and the recommendations. People born w/ severe SNHL -- sensorieural hearing loss -- will never hear like normal-hearing people. W/ a cochlear implant planted w/in the first 3 years of life, they may talk/speak very-well/clearly.
In this episode, the ENT doc saying "we can teach him to hear and speak" -- really? Those docs don't know most of the time! And the many decisions to be made by the parents (96% of babies born severely or profoundly HI have normal-hearing parents) about treatment options should not be given flippant, opinionated and judgemental advice/recommendations as depicted here.
Finally, health insurances do not/did not pay for hearing aids NOT because they don't want to pay for the elderly's devices (!!!!!), but because those very elderly of 1998 who were 25, 35 and 40 years old in 1965 did not vote for/include in Medicare hearing aid services and products. Also, there aren't enough working people (ages 20 to 65) who demand to have hearing aid coverage in insurances provided by their employers.
Just sayin' . . .
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