The Healthcare issue no one champions...

[bagelsforbreakfast]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/13/1661990/--America-s-Great-Divide-In-Dental-Care-The-Painful-Truth-About-Teeth

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Dental care has been neglected for as long as I can remember

Why are separate dental policies even necessary? In the scope of preventative and holistic medicine, dental care makes perfect sense - if only insurance companies could expand their vision past the next quarter's profits.

[dawg]

2. According to the U.S. health care system, teeth aren't part of your body.

Just like, for many years, neither was your brain.

[edhopper]

3. I have dental insurance

and it barely covers anything.
A recent root canal and crown cost me $1200, Insurance picked up about $500.
They allow a certain amount, in the case of the root canal it was $900, and then paid only $300 of it.
I could barely afford it. I could see how many could not, even with insurance.

[madokie]

4. As well as the VA tries

to provide us some semblance of health care there is no mention of Dental Care.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Maybe we need to do with dental care like we did with mental health care parity.

It should not be separate from medical care as it is integral to whole body wellness and poor dental hygiene can lead to other diseases later on down the road, including cardiovascular diseases, dementia and respiratory infections.

[NewRedDawn]

6. It is covered under the Obama expanded Medicaid

here in New York state. As well as vision & prescriptions!

[Delphinus]

7. That's great!

Dental is such a HUGE part of health.

[NewRedDawn]

8. Yes it is.

But this Trumpkill American act law will throw my wife, student daughter & I off of it. My wife is a type 2 diabetic.