Capitol Weekly Op-Ed: For seniors’ dental care, Medicare needs to step up

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October 11, 2021

Strengthening Medicare by adding dental benefits could help more than 4.5 million people in California; the largest number of Medicare beneficiaries of any state.

A 72-year-old woman went in for surgery to remove a brain tumor in 2019. The last thing she remembers before her surgery was a doctor putting her to sleep. When she awoke, she was missing her dentures, her glasses, and had no memory of how she got home.

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