Expansion of Dental Benefits Under the Medicare Advantage Program

At the height of the First Seniority Dental Plan, there were approximately 65,000 members. The population was 56 percent female and 44 percent male. The age distribution for those members who were reported as using the benefit in 1997 was as follows: age sixty-five to seventy years, 43 percent; age seventy-one to seventy-five, [...]