Jackk: In fairness, Bernie Sanders made a big push to have dental and vision costs for seniors included in both the budget reconciliation bill and the final iteration of the the poorly named “Inflation Reduction Act” but to stay within the cost limits the Administration had to agree to obtain the needed votes, they were excluded. The costs for adding dental coverage to Medicaid would run into the tens of billions of dollars in a CBO “cost” estimate. They did add dental coverage for certain children under Medicare and did add the insulin price cap for seniors in Part D but not much else.
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