It’s absurd to make dental, vision, and hearing separate from other health care. And yet that’s part of the reality of America’s broken, for-profit health care system.
Two-thirds of Medicare recipients don’t have dental coverage today. Folks are suffering with serious dental ailments, but they can’t afford to see a dentist. And some can’t even get the critical dental procedures they need before having life-saving heart surgeries.
We need to expand Medicare, improve its benefits, and guarantee it to everyone. That’s why my friend Senator Bernie Sanders and I are leading the fight for Medicare expansion in the American Families Plan.
6 million people lost their dental insurance during the pandemic. Millions more couldn’t afford dental insurance before the pandemic. Dental care isn’t some extraneous perk — it’s an essential part of staying healthy. That’s why we need to guarantee dental health care for all — starting right now by expanding what Medicare covers and who is eligible for it.
We all know that the current for-profit health care system in America is broken. So broken that it costs lives not to guarantee health care as a human right. It’s time that we took a big step towards Medicare for All by implementing these transformative health care reforms.
In solidarity,
Pramila
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