Visit Dentist, Pay With Your Retirement Fund

Received a text from my dentist:

We have decided to help you access your SUPER to pay for Dental Implant Treatment. We take care of the whole process. We have a few $75 consults including all the X-rays, open with one of our top dentists this month.

For context, SUPER is the Australian abbreviation for superannuation. This unsolicited message from a health practitioner suggesting to use money from my retirement fund to pay for basic services shows how years of short-sighted policy by a series of blatantly incompetent governments have hollowed out the country’s health-care system. How about, instead of asking people to dip into their retirement money, we tax rich people so a dentist visit can be paid for from Medicare? Just a thought.