dental seems insanely expensive even with free or subsidized healthcare. as private pratices dont take state subsidized like medi-caid. at least most dont, the onlys that did are pretty like questionable ones or low quality/soso. ive seen the dental school.clinics, waiting time is quite a while since its low cost. if you have a immediate issue like pain, abscess, broken tooth you really cant afford to wait weeks to get on-boarding to get seen in the first appointment in most cases, since its a student based dental school, they have holidays and midterms/finals so all those days are blocked out for them. right now the ACA helps people with subsidies, but you have to shop around which fits your needs(if you need alot of visits, appts, medication you have to cough up more per month)