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RE: Emergency Dentist Visit.

in #politics7 years ago (edited)

Horrid.

In Norway, health care and dental care is considered two distinct things, so adults have to pay the full price for dental care - but for children, both is for free. Of course it is. That may be socialism for some, but we consider it a natural thing that all children has equal rights to free health care, no matter if the parents are poor or from the upper middle class. (in my childhood, the socialists had a much better grip, it was hardly possible for the super rich to pay for a better health carewithout leaving the country). I believe that even tourists and illegal aliens will get necessary care without upfront payments.

Well, one exception - if the patient doesn't come to the appointment the parents will have to pay. That may be a bit tricky with children who really don't want to go to the doctor or the dentist, and do whatever they can to sabotage going there.

In Russia there is also free health care for children - but only if the children have Russian citizenship. I'm not sure how it is today, but I remember that for our first child, one of all the bureaucraziness we had to get through was getting a free insurance policy for the child, issued from a commercial private entity. That smells a bit of corruption in my book, I cannot really see that such a company can deliver any service that would be useful for the state to pay for, especially given that the very most of the health care is public anyway.