A sixteen-year freeze on payments is taking toll on people on income and disability assistance. ... For at least 16 years the amounts the provincial government has been willing to pay for adult dental services have been frozen. For many procedures the fees now cover only about half what the BC Dental Association, which represents the province’s dentists, says they typically cost. That has a major impact on patients like Gillis who struggle to find a dentist who will work for what the ministry pays, as well as on the small number of non-profit clinics in the province that specialize in serving people like him who face barriers to care ... CLICK HERE to read the full story
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