Yr 4-Min Explainer On Why TF Dental Is Not Covered By Medicare In 2022

Good dental health is crucial, honey. Sad teeth and gums can directly cause serious health problems like heart disease. But good dental health is also a marker of status because, for some reason, it’s not covered by Medicare. Basically only people earning six-figure salaries are able to afford to keep their chompers in good shape. If you can’t (or really, really don’t want to) hand over $250 every six months to have your teeth cleaned, then your oral health will likely deteriorate. And the longer you leave it the more problems and bigger bill you’ll have down the track. Limitations like cost leave lower-income people, First Nations people, immunocompromised people and those living in remote areas to suffer, while rich folks cruise by assuming clean, white teeth and rosy gums are a given. So seriously why the fuck is dental care not on medicare? Let us explain. Medicare was introduced by Labor PM Gough Whitlam in the 1970s. Back then it was called Medibank. Whitlam originally wanted dental to be included but the whole thing was a huge financial and logistical investment. It took months of negotiating with doctors and surgeons and apparently throwing dentists in the mix was just too difficult. Whitlam also didn’t want to go too hard too early. The government wanted to get the thing off the ground and make sure it worked before it ramped up spending. So it compromised and left out dental. Whitlam was voted out in 1975 and the issue was tossed aside like yesterday’s lunch. Dental’s exclusion from public healthcare has been talked about since but no government has ever been fucked to change it. Too expensive, too much work and people are already used to this system so why bother? So what dental treatments are

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