Everything we know about the Liberal-NDP dental care proposal – CBC
Children under 12 could get dental coverage later this year if the plan goes ahead
Mar 23, 2022
A proposal in the new Liberal-NDP agreement to create a national dental care program for low-income Canadians could deliver the largest expansion of Canada’s public health care system in decades.
“It is a matter of dignity,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday. “This will make a massive difference for health and for people’s quality of life.”
The deal to create a dental program is part of the new Liberal-NDP “supply-and-confidence” agreement. The agreement will see the New Democrats support the minority Liberal government on confidence votes until 2025 in exchange for action on several NDP priorities.
The NDP campaigned on a promise of a national dental care program during Singh’s two elections as party leader, but previous Liberal governments never moved on the project.
Here is what we know so far about the dental plan — how it would function, how much it would cost and the effect it could have on the roughly 6.5 million Canadians who don’t have dental coverage now.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-ndp-dental-plan-1.6393981
