Please tell us how you, your family or your community has benefited from Medicaid coverage for dental care, vision care, and transportation assistance:
Please tell us how eliminating these benefits would affect you, your family, or your community: While these benefits seem superfluous to many, dental and vision problems lead to greater issues. I am not covered by Medicaid, but I have a heart murmur, which allows blood to leak back and pool in my heart; a dental issues leading to an infection, can kill me. It is easy to say, ñItÍs just a toothache (infected) but untreated, it becomes more complicated. These basic benefits mean much more.