Glenda.

“In the United States, you can get laser treatments that might not help your eye disease, but not the glasses that will enable you to keep active despite your visual loss. And you can get a cochlear implant but not a hearing aid. By calling costly, “sexy” interventions medical, and cheaper more functionally focused devices nonmedical, American health care supports the high-profit pharmaceutical and device industries (that fund political candidates from both major parties) at the expense of the far larger numbers of citizens who would benefit from assistive devices (the people many politicians would like to represent but cannot because not supporting big health means not getting reelected5”
― Louise Aronson, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life