Canada is about to unveil the "biggest expansion of the public health system in 60 years" , or at least that's what the headlines and political party apparatchiks will tell you. While this is technically true, it's important to understand how this new programme began, and how it was slowly and...
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Thruth
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The writer is a fucking idiot with too much political spin on the fringes rather than spinning the meat of the matter. Not unlike the No-nothing ass crack for a chin cleft limey-Dutch cunt who quit recently. Or any Austrian grifter on the dole who never provides evidence for spouting shit.
Having been intimately involved in this shit show from the get go, here is the thruth.
Dentacare is the brainchild of the New Democratic Party, left of centre, socialist-lite 'tards who are in a
confidence and supply agreement to support the Liberal minority government until 2025, which prevents a vote of no-confidence bringing down the government prior to the next federal election. They should have done pharmacare first, which is another NDP platform promise.
The plan was to provide basic dental care for 75% of the Canadian population who have a family income of $90,000 or less per year. Co-pays are in play until the $80,000 and below threshold. There will be prohibitions as well as frequency limitations.
We spend $16 billion Canadian on dental care in this country with 94% being private dental benefit plans via employment and 6% public benefits for the poors.
The arguments for why the plan is messed is not that different from the arguments against Obamacare by those who enjoyed decent to excellent health care benefits via employment.
The feds severely underestimated the cost of dental care most likely on purpose until they were called on it from outside of government as well as by the parliamentary budget office. They then decided to roll it out in stages:
1. 12 and under this year and 2023
2. under 18 + gimps + seniors in 2024
3. The rest of the over 18 eligible crowd in 2025 (unless an election happens).
The proposed plan did not commit to :
1. pay the prevailing fee guide cost in the province of delivery and would rather pay pennies on the dollar like medicaid dental benefits.
2. protect of existing employer-based dental benefit plans, allowing employers to dump quality dental benefit plans for the lower benefits of the federal plan.
Because they dragged their feet and shit their pant over the total cost to insure the entire eligible population, they decided to roll out at least the under 18 plan to keep the NDP in line and to cap costs by the end of the year as "promised."
It is not universal because that is backward in this day and age, and it should be targeted to the population that is most at risk. 20% of Canadians from lower middle class down to the lowest SES class partially/completely avoid seeking dental care in any year because of costs.
As for the $650 over two years for kids, as a provider I can exhaust that without doing much actual dental treatment at all. As it stands now, the feds were forced to capitulate to agree to:
1. reimburse fees at the prevailing provincial fee guide rates
2. employers cannot ditch employment-based dental benefits plans
3. means testing is by the federal government based on the previous year's income tax reducing admin costs
4. it will be paid as a tax benefit