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2008-01-16 Britain

Dentists Flee U.K. Health System, Patients Pay More

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-01-16 07:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Solution: require dentists to treat patients, or be jailed.

Posted by gromky 2008-01-16 09:15|| 2008-01-16 09:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-01-16 10:38|| Front Page Top

#3

Just throw everyone in jail. They got dentists in prisons already.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-16 13:42|| 2008-01-16 13:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-01-16 14:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-01-16 15:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-01-16 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-01-16 21:06|| Front Page Top

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