And when the IRS finally built a free and wildly popular filing option for American taxpayers, the tax prep companies swooped in to kill it the minute that Donald Trump took office. One of my favorite legislative achievements in the Senate is a bipartisan law I got enacted to cut the price of hearing aids by thousands of dollars by overriding a bunch of state level regulatory hurdles. But even after we got it signed into law, it failed, faced years of delay, and nearly died because hearing aid manufacturers mobilized to protect inefficient regulations that kept consumer prices and corporate profits high. (18:25–18:42)
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Asserts that Elizabeth Warren helped pass a law reducing hearing aid costs by thousands of dollars.
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