and tell me this, why, in your mind, would the canadian government subsidize 
hearing aids?
They absolutely do not subsidize hearing aids, just as they don't subsidize 
eye glasses.
Perhaps a particular social assistance program at the provincial level may 
offer some subsidy or partial payment, up to a certain dollar value, every 5 
years, and most do I believe, but certainly not the federal government lol.
In fact, the federal government doesn't provide health care specifically 
either, that is done at the provincial level.
Remember, we aren't some far off city state with one government, the 
canadian government is a federal government of a country which is considered 
to be the biggest country of continuous landmass in the world.  Our feds are 
similar to yours, and we also have provincial government, like state 
government...and we have civic government as well.
So no, I wish the federal government would subsidize hearing aids, but they 
do not.
They don't subsidize education, they don't subsidize healthcare, and they 
don't subsidize anyone with a disability, beyond a federal tax savings 
initiative or savings plan etc...yep, that helps the 45 percent of the 
disabled who are actually employed , woohoo!

73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "richard fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 6:10 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Hearing Aids For Hams

> Hi;
> Very Interesting.  My mom had hearing aids about 15 years ago and
> about all I recall is that they squealed constantly.  They helped
> in a room without lots of background noise but didn't do much
> good in a crowd.
> I've been told that hearing aids are drastically cheaper in
> Canada because they are subsidized by the Canadian government.
> Fortunately I haven't had to go shopping but life's not over.
> richard
> sent from my braille note