Has dental,audio, and optical been lost in the healthcare topic of the day?
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Supplemental Insurance,
Delta Dental is OK, co-pay BS & a ton billing issues constantly thou,
some is the Denist bookkeepers & some is the ins. billing sucks...
They all suck !!, it's legal extortion IMO
I know it's seperate check, I send for my dad, nightmare sometimes,
he has a bridge/partial & crappy teeth, from alcohol & smoking for decades
{not 100% sure, if Medicare covers any of it, I'm not old enough for SS yet
}
IIRC Part C or Part D insurance don't/won't cover it,
not sure what program, I'm not there yet
But IMO yes, they should get that included too, it'd help...
Maybe the Rep.'s will address it, in the new heath plans...
Write your Representative & Senators, tell em' your beef,
tell them they should propose it with the new healthcare bill...
As long as it's not any unconstitutional freaken' mandate, that **** has to go...
good luck
Delta Dental is OK, co-pay BS & a ton billing issues constantly thou,
some is the Denist bookkeepers & some is the ins. billing sucks...
They all suck !!, it's legal extortion IMO
I know it's seperate check, I send for my dad, nightmare sometimes,
he has a bridge/partial & crappy teeth, from alcohol & smoking for decades
{not 100% sure, if Medicare covers any of it, I'm not old enough for SS yet
}IIRC Part C or Part D insurance don't/won't cover it,
not sure what program, I'm not there yet
But IMO yes, they should get that included too, it'd help...
Maybe the Rep.'s will address it, in the new heath plans...
Write your Representative & Senators, tell em' your beef,
tell them they should propose it with the new healthcare bill...
As long as it's not any unconstitutional freaken' mandate, that **** has to go...
good luck
steve from staten island
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Things to be considered with another 3rd world country are sterilization procedures and practices. When you go into a office down there and see ten or who knows how many lined up to get there teeth fixed, is that practice sterilizing instruments the way they should? Is the dental room being cleaned after a procedure as it should?Is there a health dept guidelines? If there is a infection resulting from work done, who do you call? Dental implants are surgical procedures. Im sure there are many good dentists in Mexico. Ive read were there government subsides there education costs and of course labor is cheap. However i'll stick with this country
The two dental plans i was involved with paid a set amount of money per year. If you didnt use it you lost it. Finding a dentist that would accept that schedule of fee's was a challenge. Mostly i found new dentists early on in there practice that worked with those amounts. They had what i called insurance practices and the idea was to get volume of patients and keep them coming back year after year. The problem the way i saw it was after a few years they wanted more money than was allowed so the patient paid the difference. I found that other more established practices would fill out your insurance forms but wanted payment in full up front. You as the insured just kept the check when it came.
Im sure many with children are familiar with orthodontist's. Braces cost big money and some sort of family coverage would be great. I had a payment book when my kids went through the braces stage, was like a monthly car payment. LOL.
The two dental plans i was involved with paid a set amount of money per year. If you didnt use it you lost it. Finding a dentist that would accept that schedule of fee's was a challenge. Mostly i found new dentists early on in there practice that worked with those amounts. They had what i called insurance practices and the idea was to get volume of patients and keep them coming back year after year. The problem the way i saw it was after a few years they wanted more money than was allowed so the patient paid the difference. I found that other more established practices would fill out your insurance forms but wanted payment in full up front. You as the insured just kept the check when it came.
Im sure many with children are familiar with orthodontist's. Braces cost big money and some sort of family coverage would be great. I had a payment book when my kids went through the braces stage, was like a monthly car payment. LOL.
Budnicks- have to get Part D to get SOME dental.. Course the dentist we go to doesn't take half the programs available,BUT the whole office is blonde(?) & I don't care!!!! Plus one of the hygentists is the sister of a former Penn State QB. They provided the best upper denture I ever had, so I love them all. No refitting,grinding,etc.
If we put "healthcare" in a pot on the stove and boil it all the way down. We are left with high cost period.
Is this a big --HELLO--? Do we really think that hundreds of thousands of folks get together and conspire to take our money in trade for our lives????
Those same hundreds of thousands of folks are not "others" they are us. they need the same things we all need and want.
When was the last time people danced in the street because something cost --LESS-- than before?
Good grief---The ---value of money---- falls down and everyone tends to blame their next door neighbor (who is trying to adjust like we all are) for asking what the market -is- for his way of making his living.
The "conspiracy" nerve gets tickled again.
Misplaced frustration is what I see.
State of the art healthcare tec. comes from a great deal of effort and competition from folks just like us that get old and sick and die.
Is this a big --HELLO--? Do we really think that hundreds of thousands of folks get together and conspire to take our money in trade for our lives????
Those same hundreds of thousands of folks are not "others" they are us. they need the same things we all need and want.
When was the last time people danced in the street because something cost --LESS-- than before?
Good grief---The ---value of money---- falls down and everyone tends to blame their next door neighbor (who is trying to adjust like we all are) for asking what the market -is- for his way of making his living.
The "conspiracy" nerve gets tickled again.
Misplaced frustration is what I see.
State of the art healthcare tec. comes from a great deal of effort and competition from folks just like us that get old and sick and die.
Bb70charger500
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My wife has a dental plan it's extra as her company doesn't offer anything it cost 13 a month and pays out $1000 a year yeah kinda useless but she's been getting major work done so far I'm at $32000 out of pocket ,thank her freaking family for bad genetics
66Satellite47
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I've had company provided (group) health & dental forever and they have always been separate policies with separate premiums. I think the dental has always had a set amount that gets paid by insurance & if the dentist charges more for that procedure I pay the diff.The company negotiates the policies & coverage levels for both.
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