Dentists and hygienists worried they can’t gouge seniors anymore. - alternative headline.
Edit: for those that missed it in the article:
…and whether what Ottawa pays for scaling, filings, extractions and other services will match what current private insurance plans pay.
Exactly, but you can remove “seniors” from that and it will be even more true.
In Japan, there are some limits on how much NHI will pay for in a single visit. Usually, you can pay more out-of-pocket to do things in one shot, or you have to go multiple times to accomplish things
Most dental procedures are typically spread out over multiple visits.
In the US, this was not my experience (unless they needed to send off for a permanent crown or something)
Dentists and hygienists worried they can’t gouge seniors anymore. - alternative headline.
Oh, they’ll find a way.
This plan was always designed to fail: much like $10/day daycare, it’s sloganeering wrapped in the usual neoliberal shit-sandwich of means-testing and underfunding.
*Dentists, hygienists unsure how national free dental care plan will
workIMPACT THEIR BOTTOM LINEFixed your headline for you
But Ottawa had few details yet on what the program will look like for dental care providers. It’s still unclear how dentist will sign up, how the billing process will work, and whether what Ottawa pays for scaling, filings, extractions and other services will match what current private insurance plans pay.
Sounds like Ottawa is not really communicating their thoughts; or maybe even they don’t really know what they are supposed to be doing? Is it all trial and error for now and until they find out what works before scaling?
Or, hear me out, Ottawa doesn’t want to do it and is just running out the clock before the next election makes the idea irrelevant.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Letters have started to arrive in the mailboxes of Canadian seniors inviting them to sign up for free dental care, but those who provide the services say they’re concerned whether the program will be administratively and financially viable for them to take part.
By 2025, Canada’s national plan will provide dental care to all low- and middle-income Canadians, a program dentists and public health-care experts have advocated decades for.
Nicolucci points to existing public dental care plans run by provinces for low-income children and seniors.
“We want to make sure that there’s a reduced administrative burden, that there’s not a heavy reliance on predetermination or pre-authorization,” said Ondina Love, CEO of the Canadian Dental Hygienists Association.
“The introduction of any plan of this nature will invariably run into some challenges,” said Dr. Carlos Quiñonez, a dental public health specialist at Western University in London, Ont.
John Kelso, 87, one of Vaillant’s patients, said he’s grateful to see seniors and other vulnerable Canadians receive free dental care.
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