Now They'll Really Have Lousy Teeth

Shocker! Socialized medical care is failing in England.

Many 'cannot get NHS dental care'

Many NHS dental patients in England are being forced to pay for private care, go without treatment or even pull out their own teeth, a survey suggests.

About a quarter of patients who took part in the survey by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health said they used a private dentist.

The majority said they paid for dental care privately because their dentist had stopped treating NHS patients or they could not find an NHS dentist in their area.

Some 15% had gone private because they thought they would receive better care than on the NHS.

This is elementary economics, folks. You can pass a law fixing prices, you can pass a law establishing quotas, but you cannot pass a law to force someone to provide a high quality service on time at a reasonable price.

Only the dynamics of a free market system can do that through self interest and incentives. Socialists never understand that part of economics.

Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.