We can do better, society

Healthcare Roundtable at Bowling Alley:

"A woman says her 92 year old mother tells her she wants to die because medical care is too expensive. She refuses to go to the dentist

'I don’t want my mouth to be my kids’ retirement,' she quotes her mom"

https://mobile.twitter.com/dnewhauser/status/115263153419057424

"As perfect teeth have become a coded class marker, some 30 percent of low-income adults avoid smiling with their teeth. But the issue runs even deeper. 'I think there’s this perception that it’s just aesthetic,' explained Meg Booth, Executive Director of the Children’s Dental Health Project. 'We have to dispel this notion that oral health is only about the appearance of your teeth. It’s actually about disease, and the rest of your body.'”

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21962/dental-care-crisis-oral-health-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all

"...how odd it is that teeth have been arbitrarily sequestered from other body parts when it comes to American healthcare."

~ N. Shure

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21962/dental-care-crisis-oral-health-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all