My boyfriend uses digital hearing aids, and not a cochlear implant mainly because his parents wanted him to decide on his own if he ever wants one. He is profoundly deaf, so right now he is unable to hear on phones at all. I know that if they were to improve this implant, at least with the surgery aspect of it, that he could see this as viable for him-especially for work. The only other downfall that I see is that price tag of it, 20,000 is just way too high for him right now as the insurance would never cover it all. They don't even cover his hearing aids.
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My boyfriend uses digital hearing aids, and not a cochlear implant mainly because his parents wanted him to decide on his own if he ever wants one. He is profoundly deaf, so right now he is unable to hear on phones at all. I know that if they were to improve this implant, at least with the surgery aspect of it, that he could see this as viable for him-especially for work. The only other downfall that I see is that price tag of it, 20,000 is just way too high for him right now as the insurance would never cover it all. They don't even cover his hearing aids.