🇨🇦 Man denied dental coverage under national plan says insurer 'playing games' with Canadians

The sales pitch was help millions of Canadians get dental care. The reality, as reported, is repeated denials for more complex procedures like crowns, leaving patients and providers baffled. That is the Trudeau-era formula in one neat little package: giant announcement, glossy moral posturing, then a bureaucratic maze where ordinary people get jerked around while Ottawa pats itself on the back for compassion.

This is what happens when government turns health policy into a branding exercise. A national plan sounds wonderful in a press release, right up until Canadians discover the fine print is run through insurers, pre-authorizations, and denial games. The state gets the political credit, the middlemen get the control, and the citizen gets paperwork instead of treatment. Call it social policy by illusion. More centralized promises, less actual care, and one more reminder that in Canada the regime is far better at manufacturing narratives than delivering competent service.

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