Medicare needs to cover dental and vision
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- recipient: Medicare,White House,Congress,All state governors
We the undersigned believe Medicare should cover dental and vision care, including a yearly dental check with coverage of fillings and necessary treatment to provide a healthy mouth with natural teeth repair or dentures and to prevent mouth,gum,teeth infections. Medicare would save money by providing this care because many older people get sick because of an unhealthy mouth including infections, pain, loss of appetite and inability to chew their food, resulting in poor nutrition and illness.
Medicare should cover vision including a yearly eye exam and one pair of eyeglasses. Many older people cant see well, so they have an increased risk of fall,causing broken hips,bones, head injury and hospitalization could be prevented for these ailments saving a whole lot of money.Also, without good vision medication labels are misread causing medication mistakes, again, resulting in expensive trips to the hospital and could even cause death.
It is hard to believe these coverages have not been included in medicare. I thought the government was looking for ways to save money!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
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