Calif. Clinic Brings Free Dental Care to Developmentally Disabled

Across the country, adults with intellectual disabilities suffer from a lack of access to dental care. Medicaid usually covers adults with disabilities. But the reimbursement rate is so "pathetically low that no dentist wants to participate in the program," an expert says. Marianne and Russell Benson open We Care, a nonprofit that brings free dental

Across the country, adults with intellectual disabilities suffer from a lack of access to dental care. Medicaid usually covers adults with disabilities. But the reimbursement rate is so "pathetically low that no dentist wants to participate in the program," an expert says. Marianne and Russell Benson open We Care, a nonprofit that brings free dental care to people with disabilities.

ABC News, 1/18/2012

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