It was nice
to seek dental treatment under the CHAS/Pioneer Generation Scheme and came out
without having to pay a single cent. Wow, wasn’t that nice?
It was
something else when the dental surgeon hardly did anything to your teeth. I
asked for a broken filling to be redone but was told it was still ok. It has
been chipped and breaking down in several parts and would only get worse. But
that was it. The dental surgeon did think it necessary to do anything. I was
not pleased.
The other
strange feeling was that I did not received any receipt or statement as to the
treatment done and how much it cost, how much was the subsidy and how much the
dental clinic would be claiming on my treatment.
This is
unacceptable as a dental patient would not know, and need not care how was the
billing done and whether that was the treatment done. This big hole must be
plugged, with the patient receiving a statement on the treatment he received
and the cost of the treatment as a check on the clinic involved.
Hope this
violation of a govt subsidy scheme is not abused too widely and public money
not wasted unnecessarily. Let’s wait for more audit reports and scrutinizes to
know the whole truth.