Sanders: Lack of access to dental care a national disgrace

[Earth_First]

Lack of access to dental care is a national disgrace. An estimated 130 million Americans have no coverage for dental care. In Vermont, only four in 10 kids have a regular dentist.

Read more here: http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=b68a14ec-3dde-4e3f-b04f-214a38bddbaa

[grasswire]

1. that's one thing Hillary stood for

Access to dental care. FWIW.

[marasinghe]

2. well .... we've always had that special relationship with the English.

sorry; couldn't resist that.
FWIW, i am well within the 'need radical dental care' category, myself.

[udbcrzy2]

3. Our plan has everything except hearing aids n/t

[indepat]

4. Number of instances of severe medical maladies, even deaths, stemming from lack of proper dental

care must be enormous, but I've never seen any data to support my supposition. :shrug: :patriot:

[JoeyT]

5. K&R

And of the 200 million that have dental coverage, a lot of those have dental coverage that completely sucks.

I have no idea what the maximum allowed amount is on most plans, but most of the ones I've heard that people have was around $1-2k. That barely covers a root canal and crown even if nothing else needs to be done.

[mfcorey1]

6. I have good dental insurance. The problem is that when I go in for a simple cleaning

the dental office insist that they do all these x rays and point out needless stuff. Then they want me to pay thousands of dollars when all I wanted was a simple cleaning. If I refuse all the nonsense, they refuse to give me a simple cleaning unless I have a scaling that will cost hundreds of dollar for each quadrant. Mind you that I had just had a simple cleaning in another state. I hate dealing with rip off dentist.