How did we ever get to a place where you needed a prescription to buy hearing aids in the first place? Was there a bunch of hearing aid junkies knocking over l

How did we ever get to a place where you needed a prescription to buy hearing aids in the first place? Was there a bunch of hearing aid junkies knocking over liquor stores to get another hearing aid fix? We need a ground-up reassessment of the whole concept of prescriptions. If it doesn't present a systemic risk it should be over the counter. If everyone over-uses antibiotics we might all die. Fine. But if some goober misuses blood pressure medicine, they can only hurt themself. Let people buy albuterol inhalers without permission. It's going to be fine.