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| Britain |
| Dentists Flee U.K. Health System, Patients Pay More |
| 2008-01-16 |
| 2.7 million have gone without any treatment for almost two years. Under the NHS, every resident is eligible for care by a local dental practice. Since the government changed its contract with 21,000 NHS dentists in April 2006, one in 10 dentists stopped offering state-funded services, saying the contract required them to increase their workloads while limiting their earnings...The 2006 NHS contract was aimed at encouraging preventive measures. A parliamentary committee plans to probe the contract's impact in an inquiry next month. ``If a patient comes in and needs a lot of work, there's no additional reward for that,'' one dentist said. ``You get no gain for prevention. Who in their right mind is going to treat six crowns for the price of one?'' All eagerly await Michael Moore's next documentary on this issue. Will it be called Gummo, Manufacturing Dentures, Drilling for Caries, Toothless White Men, Gingivitis and Me, or Dude, Where's My Teef? |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #7 The squeeze prompted private-equity firms such as Duke Street Capital Ltd. and Hutton Collins & Co. and corporate dentistry chains to buy up practices and has fueled demand for dental plans and insurance." Y-you mean the free market is doing a better job than socialism? B-b-but how is that possible? /sarcasm off |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-01-16 21:06 |
| #6 Think its bad now, wait until they see the number of Insurance Numbers given out in 2007. Could it be the influx of people who have never had dental treatment in their life? Real dentisty, not the whiskey and pliers kind, is a skilled profession which it would be hard to *force* them to work without a serious decline in efficiency and quality. Also, new dentists would stay clear of that market. When I hear the democrap candidates talk about government health systems I think of my last trip to the DMV, and now I will think of this. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-16 15:35 |
| #5 You could try paying them a fair price, that usually all but the worst of the refusniks back on the job. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-01-16 15:00 |
| #4 SteveS, If you keep reading RB'burg you'll see that they're working on turning the whole place into a prison so you're on the right track. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-01-16 14:09 |
| #3 Just throw everyone in jail. They got dentists in prisons already. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-01-16 13:42 |
| #2 Under Sharia law these dentists could have their left foot amputated. I made that up but it sounds about right. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-01-16 10:38 |
| #1 Solution: require dentists to treat patients, or be jailed. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-01-16 09:15 |