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"When the forerunner of Medicare was established in the 1970s, dental care was
left out. Australians are still suffering the consequences half a century
later.
Patients pay much more of the cost of dental care than they do for other kinds
of care.
More Australians delay or skip dental care because of cost than their peers in
most wealthy countries.
And as our dental health gets worse, fees keep on rising.
For decades, a litany of reports and inquiries have called for universal dental
coverage to solve these problems.
Now, with the Greens proposing it and Labor backbenchers supporting it, could
it finally be time to put the mouth into Medicare?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
