My fellow Americans, how the hell are teeth not covered by medical plans? Why do I have to get a completely different coverage specifically for my teeth? And who can I yell at?
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>So in the early 1800s Dentistry was just a part of MedicalCare, but all of the Physicians they kind of looked down on teeth and dentists and didn’t think like what they did was real medicine and eventually the dentist like got tired of all the attitude and so they separated from all the Physicians and formed their own Dental Society. So the mid-1800s rolls around and health insurance becomes a thing and of course they excluded the dentist and dental care because ugh teeth. But the biggest reason why dental insurance and health insurance ares eparated to this very day is because of what happened when Medicare was passed. The medical Physicians through the AMA and the dentist through the Ada they both vehemently opposed Medicare because they knew it would result in them not making as much money. But only the dentists were successful in their lobbying efforts to get excluded from Medicare and now Medicare basically serves as the foundation of Health Care coverage. All the other health insurance companies they look to Medicare to determine what services they should cover and what the reimbursement rates should be. And dentists work very hardthrough lobbying to make sure they remain separated from all of that. They don’t want to be a part of Medicare. Even dental insurance is totally different from health insurance. With health insurance you have an out-of-pocket maximum that you the patient has to pay. Well a dental insurance dental insurance has the out-of-pocket maximum that they have to pay. Totally separate. It’d bevery difficult to combine the two at this point.
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