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Dental care problems caused by states, Abbott says

Posted in Dental Health News by Dion Kramer on February 19, 2007

This is an article that appeared recently on ABC News Online.

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says the Federal Government cannot be blamed for the long dental waiting lists.

He told Parliament state dental funding fell by $47 million between 2000 and 2004.

He noted the case of a pensioner from the Gold Coast who waited three years to have teeth removed in 1994, when Kevin Rudd worked for the Queensland Government.

And Mr Abbott says state governments are still failing to provide enough funding for dental services.

“It is true that state-run public dental services are failing, unfortunately Mr Speaker there are now some 650,000 people on state public dental waiting lists right around Australia and Mr Speaker this is fairly and squarely the fault of the state Labor governments,” he said.

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