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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Why again are dental and eye not covered under universal medical coverage?
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Serious Eye issues are covered by AHC. If you need surgery to repair an eyelid due to injury or have an eye disease it is certainly covered by health care.
Pink eye, foreign body removals, corneal abrasions and other medical related eye problems ARE covered by health care. Patients under 19 and over 65 ARE covered by health care.
This is the main distinction between Dental and Eye coverage.
Only your routine eye examination are not covered.
Another big distinction between Dental and eye, in Alberta, is that our college actually sends out a FEE guideline yearly. It is based on factors like urban vs rural and economic factors. It makes a lot of sense to to so and prevents a government entity from stepping in to regulate fees, while also creating an internal pressure to prevent undercutting and excessive increases.
BTW: This is going to a be difficult battle as Dentistry is considered a self-regulating health profession. There is likely some legal issues related to the government trying to control fees. Most likely it will just lead to the College of Dentistry setting up their own fee guideline for its members.