Sen. Ossoff Working Across Aisle to Help Kids with Hearing Loss Get Health Care

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to help Georgia kids with hearing loss get health care.

Sen. Ossoff is cosponsoring Ally's Act, bipartisan legislation first introduced by Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), which would help children with hearing loss get the care they need by requiring insurance providers to cover bone-anchored hearing systems and cochlear implants, as well as the surgery, maintenance, and upgrades associated with these devices.

"No family should have to worry that insurance won't cover the medical care their child needs," Sen. Ossoff said."That's why I am working to ensure that children with hearing loss in Georgia can get the health care they need to thrive."

Sen. Ossoff continues working to expand access to health care for Georgia children.

Last month, the bipartisan Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act, cosponsored by Sen. Ossoff, was signed into law as part of bipartisan government funding legislation to ensure kids covered by Medicaid in Georgia face fewer delays when receiving specialty care.

In 2025, during a U.S Senate Appropriations hearing about the impact of cuts to medical research, Sen. Ossoff sounded the alarm about the impacts of the Trump Administration's cancelation of medical research and its impacts on long-term health outcomes - including warning that the cancelations will cost children's lives.

Also in 2025, Sen. Ossoff introduced an amendment to protect children's and maternal health care through Medicaid that Senate Republicans blocked.

In 2024, Sen. Ossoff delivered over $1.7 million through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to help hire and train more mental health counselors for students in Georgia schools and also delivered $1,205,656 in Federal funding through the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program to help Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University train and retain more pediatric physicians.

Click here to read Ally's Act.

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