Soral
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:14 PM
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Health Care law question: Is there even a mention about dental health? |
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Edited on Sun Mar-27-11 01:20 PM by Soral
Just curious, I've asked a bunch of people, and they have no idea
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:18 PM
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1. When you call it Obamacare ... |
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You align yourself with the right.
But the answer is no. Unfortunately, no dental insurance this time around. Not all workplaces offer dental insurance (and it usually sucks when they do); so the exchanges do not include dental care either, to my knowledge.
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Soral
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:19 PM
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It's just as important as any other health.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:25 PM
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3. That term offends some here. I call it Obamacare |
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or insurance finance reform, :shrug: he's the one who passed it. As for dental, not that I know of. Of course when you buy insurance you cam buy dental.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:47 PM
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6. "He's the one who passed it" ? |
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That would be Congress. They wrote it and passed it at his urging. He signed it.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:49 PM
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8. You are right. He urged it's passing. He signed it. |
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:44 PM
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4. No, not really. Dental care just seems to be the forgotten |
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part of medical care. Having had a tooth pulled this week, I've been thinking about that a lot. Medicare doesn't cover it, either.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:44 PM
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5. Dental care is not included in the health care reform. |
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However, the reform does make more people eligible for Medicaid, which does cover dental, though the details differ depending on the state.
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Sun Mar-27-11 01:47 PM
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7. Dental care took a lot of time to come about even in some of the |
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social welfare nations. For some reason people place a low priority on it. I cannot fathom why.
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Sun Mar-27-11 02:38 PM
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9. A poor kid in maryland died from an abscessed tooth. |
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They didn't have $75 to pull it, but the state came up with $250,000 for ICU before he died. I believe that because of that incident that Maryland now has free dental care for poor children.
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