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awkward-teabag · 8 months ago

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It's even worse than that, to qualify you need to have no access to dental insurance in any way. This means if your pension has it but it has a high deductible, you're SOL and can't get coverage with this even if your dentist applied for it. Same if you qualify through an employer or qualify through a spouse's or family member's insurance, no CDCP for you.

Even if you opt out of coverage for those, you still technically have access to it so are automatically disqualified from the CDCP.

I'm not sure if it was struck down or is one of those things they don't want to publicize but still exists but apparently if you ever got private dental insurance, you're disqualified from the CDCP as well.

It's a mess for dentists, staff at dental offices, and for anyone who was thinking of using it. Even government workers are still scrambling to figure it out because it was rushed with little planning or communication, possibly due to the federal election next year.

Needless to say, don't go canceling your private insurance or opting out from pension/employment coverage. It's very possible your dentist didn't sign on and/or you wouldn't qualify even if they did.

The Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP) is set to start providing coverage next month — but it's not clear that enough dentists will enrol to provide care to the 1.6 million seniors that have signed up already. Health Canada would not provide CBC News with a figure for how many oral health care providers have registered for the CDCP since applications opened on March 11. The department will only say "thousands" have signed on. According to their national associations, there are approximately 26,500 dentists, 1,700 independent hygienists and 2,400 denturists practising in Canada — 30,500 in total. "I'm hearing that the sign-up is slow," said Dr. Heather Carr, president of the Canadian Dental Association. "I do not think it's as high as we would hope in order for this plan to be successful."

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#i'm all for universal dental and vision care because those things should absolutely be covered #but this seems like trudeau finally relenting and implementing a worse version of what the ndp has been pushing for for years #while also making the requirements asinine because why should the government take care of its people when people should bootstrap? /s #and this goes back throughout trudeaus governance where he says things are an individual/provincial issue and the feds shouldn't pay for it #also him fighting to not pay out native kids after the feds lost a legal case and *had* to pay #but i've heard through sources that there's daily communications that this changed or that no longer applies #because it wasn't thought through at all and 'we didn't think of that' is a common utterance by the people behind this #so yeah i think growing dissatisfaction with trudeau plus election year next year is why this was rushed through as a hail mary #and try to take votes from the ndp while saddling pp with a public program if the cons win that can't be shut down without blowback #i've even seen people defend it saying that 'universal healthcare also sucked at first' as if that's a defense/excuse #for this level of incompetence as if looking back to its rollout shouldn't have been the first thing done

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