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The Greens want Medicare to cover a trip to the dentist. It's a grand vision but short on details

  • Written by: Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Universal and affordable access to dental care is the perennial health-care issue everyone cares about but no major political party seems willing to address in any substantive way.

Thank goodness the Greens consistently remind us of the pressing need to make dental care an essential part of health care. This election, they’ve...

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