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October 16, 2007
Socialized Medicine Reduces Brits to Pulling Their Own Teeth
Posted by Dave Blount at October 16, 2007 8:39 AM
A survey of 5,000 patients in England offers a hint as to what we have to look forward to, after HillaryCare is imposed:
[A]s many as six per cent had treated themselves because they could not find a dentist.
Some said they took out their own teeth or fixed broken crowns with glue. One person in Lancashire had carried out 14 separate extractions with pliers.
A researcher at a shopping centre in Liverpool met three separate people in one morning who had pulled out teeth themselves.
Valerie Halsworth, 64, reports pulling seven of her own teeth because she could not get treatment under Britain's socialized NHS. Unsurprisingly, she reports that the self-extraction was "excruciatingly painful."
Not to worry, bureauweenie Ben Bradshaw, Labour's health minister, has a solution:
Anyone who can't get to see an NHS dentist should contact their local primary care trust and get on a list to see one.
Brits are encouraged to get their children on these lists now, so that they might get in to see a dentist before they die of old age.
At least, when no one has access to modern dentistry anymore, we'll have equality, right liberals? Wrong: anyone who can afford a private dentist goes to one. But this is difficult for many, because under socialism you have to pay twice: once through taxes for theoretical dentists, and again at the office for the actual dentist.
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George Daulat of Scarborough, England, who was reduced to pulling his own teeth: "It was agonising." |
On tips from Steve and Pete.
