SENATE REPUBLICAN FLIP-FLOPS, DENIES HEARING AIDS TO YOUNG ADULTS

AUGUSTA – After one Senate Republican flipped his vote, the Senate failed to secure the two-thirds, or 24, votes need to override Governor LePage’s veto of Democratic Senator Linda Valentino’s bill requiring insurance companies to cover hearing aids for young adults up to age 26. Maine law currently requires insurance companies to pay for hearing aids for children only up to the age of 18.

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