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Dental funding in this week’s budget is just tinkering around the edges. We need so much more
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An opinion piece criticising the Australian federal budget's dental funding announcements as insufficient to address the cost-of-living crisis, arguing that ongoing schemes for adults and children lack adequate detail or scope.
Dental funding in this week’s budget is just tinkering around the edges. We need so much more
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This week’s federal budget was meant to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis.
But Treasurer Jim Chalmers has done little to address a big out-of-pocket health cost millions of Australians face – dental care. This highlights the blind spot in the way successive governments think about oral health.
Yes, ongoing funding has been announced for two dental schemes – one for adults, the other for children.
These sound promising, until you dive into the details.
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