New dental care program should improve First Nations benefits, NDP says

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NDP health critic Don Davies says new dental care program should improve First Nations benefits

Dental benefits for Indigenous people should be improved if the new national dental insurance plan offers better or more accessible services, NDP health critic Don Davies said Wednesday.

“I’m working with [Indigenous Services Minister Patty] Hajdu, who is responsible for the NIHB, to see how we can learn from their experiences and their lessons in order to provide a better program to non-Indigenous Canadians, based on what we do for Indigenous Canadians,” Duclos said in an interview last month.

“They’re going without their dentures and they’re saying it hurts, it cuts them because their mouth has shifted and they can’t get another pair for five years,” Martin said of some of her clients. “NIHB does not cover a lot of prevention, which is really our focus at this point,” Sylvie Martel said at a news conference in Ottawa last week.

 

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At the cost of bankrupting the country.

It's not great but it's something.

What dental care program? Oh, you mean the free, unsupported cheques?

They love government cheques! And whiskey

Ndp. Should

First nations are bleeding us dry. Maybe they could use their settlement money to pay for this

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