Dental Care Should Be Part of Universal Healthcare

[maddiemom]

124. I so agree, and always have! When lucky enough to have employee health insurance

or having been covered by my spouse's, dental was always extra and out of pocket. I've known many others in these more recent hard times who've needed dental work to a point where it could become life threatening if unattended, and had to go into major debt. Having had braces twice in my life, (as a kid, and later as an adult with a seriously messed up mouth due to wisdom teeth and other factors) I hate the fact that this work was considered "cosmetic" and not covered. Currently I've reached Medicare age, and it's amazing how hard it is to find a dentist in my area who accepts it. We've, as a country; and, not surprisingly, insurance companies, have known how important well-maintained teeth are to general health for years. Not really surprising, with our general health insurance problems, that this continues to be ignored, and braces, last I heard, still equated with vanity plastic surgery .