This bill, the "Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2025", sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), expands Medicare by adding new government run coverage for dental, vision, and hearing care. The bill would make Medicare cover routine dental cleanings and exams, basic and major dental services, emergency dental care, and dentures, plus routine eye exams, eyeglasses, and contact lenses, along with routine hearing exams and hearing aids.

Instead of empowering patients through choice and competition, this bill represents a major entitlement expansion that grows the government footprint in healthcare and increases pressure for higher spending, higher taxes, and more top-down control over what services are covered and how providers are paid.

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