Posted on 04/17/2008 1:36:04 PM PDT by george76
The full, desperate state of dental care across the country can be revealed today.
Half the population has received no dental care on the NHS in the last two years.
And thousands of suffering patients are turning up at hospital emergency departments for treatment because they cannot find an NHS dentist.
Shocking figures seen by the Daily Mail suggest there have been 27,000 more hospital admissions since the Government bungled the introduction of a new contract for dentists.
Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley said: "We know that there are people out there who are pulling out their own teeth because they can't find a NHS dentist."
In total, 23,161,368 people in England - almost half the population - received no dental care on the Health Service in the two years up to last September.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hillary Care
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Poor dental care in the UK? Shocking!
/sarc
Similar stories out of Mass., and yet people here are touting Mitt for 2012. I think we have this kind of thing to look forward to no matter who gets in, unfortunately. The only hope is to take back the Congress.
If you enjoy your trips to the post office at Christmas, you are going to love national health care.
After all, gubermint does such a fine job with the DMV; by all means let them run healthcare. /tu
“If you enjoy your trips to the post office at Christmas, you are going to love national health care.”
The efficiency of the Post Office, and the compassion of the IRS.
They could not get NHS dentists two hundred years ago either.
England, two hundred years of history, unhampered by progress.
We should send in our crack team of specialists.
Half the population has received no dental care on the NHS in the last two years.
...But socialized healthcare covers everything, right?....Yeah Baby!
Yes, but how many of those 23 million people actually have teeth...
What would theyr think would happen when they started drinking chocolate?
This is actually my favorite place to rant against government healthcare. I've had to make several trips to the DMV lately. Standing in line watching lazy, incompetent people ignore your needs is a great place to discuss healthcare with others in line.
"I'm sorry sir, this is the broken arm line. The concussion line is over there. You must go to the back of that line."
"You don't have the correct paperwork for a heart attack. Please get your paperwork straight and then we can treat you."
Or the public education system.
Okay, so socialized medicine has improved things in the UK...but would it work here?
Two times in my life I neglected my teeth for long periods. These were two to three years. Neglected means any effort beyond routine brushing.
Two times in my life I have had to have my bone and tissue structure in my mouth rebuilt in long painful operations to recover from my negligence and prevent loss of all of my teeth.
These days I visit the dentist every six months. I simply don't want to go through any such thing again.
I think anyone proposing socialized medicine on any sort should be forced to skip the dentist for, say, four years. When their teeth start falling out they can say, "Yes, but it is free to you the average citizen." People sans teeth ar so sexy.
If national healthcare was a conservative idea, this story would be all over the place. Instead it will be filed away along with all the global cooling stories.
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