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Canadian Dental Care Plan expands to include millions of new eligible Canadians (www.canada.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago

dental is so important for overall health im really surprised its separated.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

It's very strange that teeth are considered optional. Eyes too.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

eyes I can sorta see as its realtively cheap and easy for basic correction and usually actual medical eyes is covered. At least in the us its part of medical insurance. Bacteria from mouth can move to body though and inflamation in the mouth can be detrimental for a lot of common medical conditions.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 18 points 2 months ago

Man it’s so cool that you guys have dental care.

[+] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -15 points 2 months ago

You could too, you just need to borrow from the future, with interest. The poor of the future will be screwed by austerity, in order to save the rich from higher taxes, we've already rolled back the capital gains tax over 250k.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

You could too, you just need to borrow from the future, with interest. The poor of the future will be screwed by austerity

I love this. It's classic FUD and it shows a complete lack of understanding of the prime benefit of a consolidated service.

This is a great moment for you, as you have SUCH potential to learn a great deal. Will you?

[-] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

All of the money spent now on pro-active regular checkups and prevention will limit the amount of reactive expensive emergency surgeries later

[-] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

So what, it shouldn't be funded as a perpetual non-infrastructure program?

The same could be same as healthcare, yet if we didn't fund it we'd be paying perpetual interest on it.

[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Applications will open by age group:

May 1: 55 to 64 years old
May 15: 18 to 34 years old
May 29: 35 to 54 years old

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

My wife and I would qualify today if I hadn't got a lump sum layoff package last year.

Gotta wait until my tax return shows I'm not making 2 years wages in a single year...

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