Host: Linda Stephan
Health officials say a Northern Michigan woman died last week from a disease that started as an untreated dental infection. She was in her 50s, mentally impaired, and insured by Medicaid. But she didn't have dental coverage.
In an Executive Order this summer, Governor Granholm ended dental coverage for low-income adults on Medicaid.
The head of Dental Clinics North is convinced this woman would still be alive, had that never happened.
As the budget in Lansing shrinks with the state's economy, community resources are strained.
We hear from service providers, and a Kalkaska man who spent months trying to get his teeth pulled, with an infection that had made it into his jaw bone.
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