Health Care law question: Is there even a mention about dental health?

[Soral]

Just curious, I've asked a bunch of people, and they have no idea

[frazzled]

1. When you call it Obamacare ...

You align yourself with the right.

But the answer is no. Unfortunately, no dental insurance this time around. Not all workplaces offer dental insurance (and it usually sucks when they do); so the exchanges do not include dental care either, to my knowledge.

[Soral]

2. thanks... i suppose

It's just as important as any other health.

[Autumn]

3. That term offends some here. I call it Obamacare

or insurance finance reform, :shrug: he's the one who passed it. As for dental, not that I know of. Of course when you buy insurance you cam buy dental.

[Codeine]

6. "He's the one who passed it" ?

That would be Congress. They wrote it and passed it at his urging. He signed it.

[Autumn]

8. You are right. He urged it's passing. He signed it.

So I call it Obamacare.

[MineralMan]

4. No, not really. Dental care just seems to be the forgotten

part of medical care. Having had a tooth pulled this week, I've been thinking about that a lot. Medicare doesn't cover it, either.

[subterranean]

5. Dental care is not included in the health care reform.

However, the reform does make more people eligible for Medicaid, which does cover dental, though the details differ depending on the state.

[Codeine]

7. Dental care took a lot of time to come about even in some of the

social welfare nations. For some reason people place a low priority on it. I cannot fathom why.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. A poor kid in maryland died from an abscessed tooth.

They didn't have $75 to pull it, but the state came up with $250,000 for ICU before he died. I believe that because of that incident that Maryland now has free dental care for poor children.