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but to stay within the cost limits the Administration had to agree to obtain the needed votes, they were excluded.
As everyone knows the budget is not about costs. Not for Democrats or Republicans. Republicans have zero problem giving wealthy individuals tax breaks which caused the debt to go up 5.9 Trillion dollars. They have no issue sending 800 Billion dollars to the military every year when we are not at war and have not been in a real war for decades.
If Americans would demand from their representatives that the Dental Insurance system be fixed and reverse the need to go to Hungary, then they would. If we have a dental system that is too costly for the average American , then American’s deserve that it be fixed.
<blockqoute> The costs for adding dental coverage to Medicaid would run into the tens of billions of dollars in a CBO “cost” estimate.
Tens of billions of dollars is small change overall. And it would benefit Millions of Americans.