{"id":24114,"date":"2025-03-11T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24114"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:58:43","slug":"news-sanders-doggett-introduce-bills-to-expand-medicare-to-cover-dental-vision-and-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24114","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Sanders, Doggett Introduce Bills to Expand Medicare to Cover Dental, Vision and Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As posted on Bernie Sanders website March 11,2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 11 \u2013 As millions of seniors and people with disabilities struggle to afford dentures, hearing aids and eye glasses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, today introduced bicameral legislation to expand access to dental, hearing and vision care for the 68 million American seniors on Medicare.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/press-releases\/news-sanders-doggett-introduce-bills-to-expand-medicare-to-cover-dental-vision-and-hearing\/\">Read here..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/press-releases\/news-sanders-doggett-introduce-bills-to-expand-medicare-to-cover-dental-vision-and-hearing\/\">.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-16214\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_61286258dental-service-chair-dentist.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_61286258dental-service-chair-dentist.jpg 800w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_61286258dental-service-chair-dentist-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dreamstime_s_61286258dental-service-chair-dentist-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As posted on Bernie Sanders website March 11,2025 WASHINGTON, March 11 \u2013 As millions of seniors and people with disabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,43,12,200,1477,6],"tags":[41,1720,61,1719],"class_list":["post-24114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dentaloral-health","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-hearing-aids","category-medicare-general","tag-dental","tag-hearing","tag-medicare","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24115,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24114\/revisions\/24115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}