Wed 9/4/13 Noon & 7PM Starting October 1, Vermonters will be able to shop for medical insurance on the new health care exchange. But what about ?
Tuesday on the show we’ll get to the bottom of how dental coverage fits into health care reform with Cassandra Gekas, from the Department of , and Jodie Hittle from l.
We’ll also get a picture of the oral health of this state with Steve Arthur, director of Oral Health for the Department of Health. There are only 368 dentists in this Vermont (that's roughly 1 per every 1,700 people). Over a third of them practice in Chittenden county, and a third of them are over 60 years old. In fact, the Department of Health pays for a full-time dental recruiter to bring new dentists to settle here.
We'll also learn about - is it a real trend?