As with the transplant surgeons, shortages occur because government caps compensation and removes the incentive to specialize at all -- and with dentists, who can opt out of the NHS system unlike their physician colleagues, the private market becomes exclusive to only those who can afford both the tax burden of NHS and the fees for dental work. What happens then? The rich get dental work. The poor buy pliers and Super Glue. Actually, I could be wrong. The poor might borrow the pliers. Six percent of the survey sample treated themselves out of frustration, including one man who extracted 14 of his own teeth. Twenty percent of the sample could not afford dental services. An additional 35% blamed their lack of dental care on a lack of NHS options close enough to them. That means a majority of Britons have no practical access to dental care, thanks to their government-run health care system.
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Just repeat after me: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton...
Maybe not such a good idea after all?
Which reminds me of the joke I heard Paul Harvey tell recently (maybe slightly paraphrased but close): "Vladimir Putin will retain power in Russia by becoming Prime Minister. That's what you have to do when your wife doesn't want to run for President."
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