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They are not anywhere at that price. The ones europeans tend to get go for $1,806 retail I checked.

I've noticed Americans like to bs their medical costs as bad as the system is, you can't compare some newest luxury devices to what an average person is using all around the world.

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In fairness to op, the out of date pricing may not be that out of date.

recent legislation in the US was meant to bring down hearing aid cost and to break the monopoly on devices. It’s seemingly worked so well that TV commercials for individual brands have started to show up for low cost aids (sub-$5k)

Hearing aids (ignoring implantable ones like BAHA and cochlear) weren’t going for anywhere near $50,000 in the US.

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