"I heard about a friend of mine who accessed his super and thought 'I've got plenty of super in there, so I'll go down that line'."
"No-one made me aware of that [in advance]. I just didn't even think. It's my money,"he said.
"That's a lot of money. The dental issues absolutely have been fixed, that's fantastic. But that will have an impact on their retirement plans without question."
"What we now want to do for people like Daniel, and the 60 per cent of people across this country who last year said they put off going to the dentist and cited cost as the reason, is we want to get dental into Medicare,"he said.
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