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submitted 1 year ago by Catch42@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

I'm American and in addition to our messed up healthcare system. Teeth are simultaneously so important that I have to see a specialist (dentist) for routine care, but so unimportant that it's not included in my healthcare coverage. Is it like that elsewhere?

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[-] exscape@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope, not in Sweden either, but some parties (left AND right) are pushing for it.
All tooth-related healthcare is free as long as you're 23 or younger though, but after that it gets expensive.

[-] Mullet85@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

In Australia we also consider teeth to be luxury bones, so they aren't included in our health care

[-] Gabbro@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's a miracle the emergency department is still free with the way our country has been going.

[-] unfnknblvbl@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I had a lipoma removed for free under Medicare a couple of years back, much to the shock of at least three doctors who insisted that it couldn't be done.

Mind you, now I'm 20 months into a 90-day waiting period to have my gallbladder removed...

[-] -spam-@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel you. I'm near that for three protruding discs in my neck with one pushing on my spinal cord.

12 months to see a hospital physio who got me in front a surgeon the next day, he wondered how I was still walking. 9 months later, im still waiting for something to happen next.

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