The article includes more hearing aids OTC. That's a restriction enforced by the FDA, the impacts of which were already being reduced by new law*. I suspect che

The article includes more hearing aids OTC. That's a restriction enforced by the FDA, the impacts of which were already being reduced by new law*. I suspect cheap, unregulated hearing aids may have been threatening the entrenched players protected by existing law, but this and the 2017 act don't seem to do as much as they could to allow these things to be as cheap as they really are. * https://www.consumerreports.org/hearing-aids/over-the-counter-hearing-aids-to-become-available/ https://www.consumerreports.org/hearing-aids/over-the-counte...