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Yeah and it should cover it given how imperative dental well-being is.

In Australia you can pay private health insurance to cover dental and optical. Although we can get eye checks at an optometric covered under Medicare and we have a school dental scheme. The school dental scheme is $1000 of dental care/treatment per child that is covered under Medicare. This doesn't include special dentists like orthodontists etc.

Luckily mine does! And yes, I'm in the US.

It’s because the HMOs have more money to spend on lobbyist

I used to agree with this statement. Recently I took a job selling health insurance. Y'all this industry is SO HEAVILY REGULATED by the government and lawyers! Anyway, get yourself an insurance agent who you can talk to and get to know you. There ARE PLANS that cover dental, vision. And hearing, but if you have an agent who doesn't know what they are selling, you won't get those policies. You need someone who cares about your situation and the way to do that is to get an actual person as your agent. They'll get to know you and your circumstances, and they will be able to understand your needs and can help you find a policy that works for you!

And it doesn't cover hearing aids either unless you're born w/ a hearing issue.

Yeah, I don't understand why it can't be covered. But I guess that would make private insurance obsolete. Oh well.

I take it this is USA, as my Medical Insurance does cover both, in South Africa.

All of congress in the US get full medical dental and vision coverage for free!

I could probably write a book about the atrocities I've seen from insurance companies and big pharmer. It's a broken fu**ing system and the only ones benefiting from it are rich a**holes and occasionally a patient in a clinical trial that has a good outcome from a new drug/treatment they would never be able to afford if they didn't offer themselves up as lab rats :(

My issue is, when you pull out your insurance card or what not, they are next to always stressing that "you don't have that policy or you need to get x insurance to get full coverage".

Or apply to your deductible....

Well a company could provide a policy that covers a person for everything that could possibly happen. Make it compulsory and then every person is covering for every other person's costs. Impractical I know - so insurance now covers major issues like health, house, contents, car, life, accident, pet, etc. And if everyone is covered and everyone subscribes it works, but someone says I have no teeth so why should I have to pay to cover other people's teeth (conveniently forgetting that they are contributing for your stroke medication or your kids broken leg treatment. So now you get policies that cover bits and pieces, and there are always borderline cases and grey areas that depend on legal interpretation of what is and is not included. So READ THE FINE PRINT!

Only in America....

Even dental hardly covers anything basics besides Xrays

Insurance companies act like teeth and vision are new inventions. Like they are not quite sure whether being able to see and eat is going to be important.

I think we can all agree that the US health insurance market is all one big collective scam period. Nothing like having health insurance but still have to pay 9k out of pocket to use it…???? Might as well go to a different country on vacation and handle your medical needs.

Pretty common in Europe to have separate insurance for dental and vision. Don't see a problem with that. When you are young, vision and dental are rarely a problem so it's cheaper to pay the costs rather than the premiums. When you get older, the reverse is true, so not having it included saves money on premiums in the long run.

Or it does cover dental, but only if the dentist is in network, and the only dentist in network is a four hour drive from wherever you live.

It is infuriating that it is a totally separate entity, despite the fact that an oral absess, or gum infect could easily turn bad and cause other HEALTH issues.

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Given that having bad teeth can contribute to heart disease, you'd think it would be. But in the USA health insurance isn't about covering health care, it's about Insurance Companies raping the American people for every cent they can.

It also puts the employees in the position where they're at the mercy of disrespectful and cruel customers, and sadly, that might be the point.

Not up to speed on other religions' history, but the way the Catholic church sold tickets to heaven in medieval days, just wow

Wait till you learn about funerals

Exactly and our government wants to increase the retirement age to 70. I don't know anyone at the age of 70+ that is fit and healthy enough to work. Especially in the building industry. We get a few years fun until we start school and then we spend most of our lives as government drones.

Always ends with the masses supporting the leaders extravagant lifestyles while they dodge taxes and commit crimes.

Even if it worked, it would be only a trickle.

Diamonds are overrated.

Also free trials should not require payment details to automatically subscribe after the trial period expires

The companies pay lower and lower wages, people earn less, they cannot afford basic things, capitalism which is based on people buying stuff they do not even need, collapses.

Just mark it as spam

But, but, but the market will sort it out......

YES! Education should be free, as it's in everyone's right to study and learn

If age gave you wisdom, old people wouldn't almost exclusively read the Daily Mail.

this person's great grandfather is a saint : )

It's only getting worse. I was gonna buy a lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes yesterday but was gonna cost me approx $12. Which is insane.

Thanks to computers and automation we are more efficient than ever. And yet we work as many hours as our grandparents were. How is that aceptable?

I think you mean capitalism in general

They care about their profit only

"Covenience"

Worked at a vision center a long time ago. Those $250 frames you just bought? Cost the company less than $10.

In some places tap water is not drinkable.

I watched John Oliver (gem) talk about this. It's really crazy. Like I've said before everywhere you look it's f*ck people, give me more and more money.

It's often a substitute for direct discrimination. Since disadvantaged groups are less likely to have degrees, if you want to discriminate without breaking the law, a degree requirement makes it easier.

It should be automatic by default with the option to do the whole headache for those who want it.

We bought a lot second hand, and resold after they've grown out of stuff. At the moment were part of a "hand me down chain" 🤣 It saves money and a lot of waste

Advertising in general always seems to sneak its way into ad-free formats. Cable TV was like network TV except no ads....until they added ads. Youtube was finally like TV except no ads...until they added ads. Then you can always block the ads and just watch the video...until their paid promotional segments.

Also for instance here where I live in Florida the recycling center used to accept glass and then quit. I spoke with an attendant and they said the state quit taking it because there wasn't enough profit. That's not the point!

About a month after I bought plane tickets I got a message that they had to change my flights. My new return flight was a day later. I asked if they could change it back to the day prior as planned - these tickets were a good 9 months in advance so I know they had seats. They told me yea, they could change back - and the difference in ticket price is $750 please. I argued for a day and finally heard back sorry that was a mistake, it’s only $375 more. I said no - and they finally agreed to change my flight back to the original day free of (additional) charge.

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