In America????

[Pam]

Sadly, I am sure this goes on more often than we will ever know. Years ago I worked for a dentist. When I first started with him he was seeing Medicaid patients. Shortly after that he stopped seeing any new Medicaid but still saw his old Medicaid patients and anyone who was already a patient but now unfortunately found themselves on Medicaid. If my memory serves me right, a routine cleaning under Medicaid provided a reimbursement of something like $6 while a regular insurance provided a reimbursement of $30. Remember this was years ago so the numbers I am sure have drastically changed, but you can see the huge difference in compensation. It is a matter of greed for sure.

[wombat2u2004]

Sadly, I am sure this goes on more often than we will ever know. Years ago I worked for a dentist. When I first started with him he was seeing Medicaid patients. Shortly after that he stopped seeing any new Medicaid but still saw his old Medicaid patients and anyone who was already a patient but now unfortunately found themselves on Medicaid. If my memory serves me right, a routine cleaning under Medicaid provided a reimbursement of something like $6 while a regular insurance provided a reimbursement of $30. Remember this was years ago so the numbers I am sure have drastically changed, but you can see the huge difference in compensation. It is a matter of greed for sure.

And isn't it a crying shame that so called professionals can go that low.
Wombat

[trayi52]

What a shame, that the little boy had to from a toothache!

I don't have any kind of insurance, not even medical. Our governor took all our insurance away. So I have to really be careful about even going to the Doctor. I definitely can't go to the Dentist. They say we make too much money. My husband is on disability, how do you make too much on disability? He of course has medicare, I have nothing!

I can imagine how you can't find a doctor to treat you, when you don't have money to pay for it!

Willie