My work quota is maxed out, bugger off!
Posted on April 1st, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Birmingham, Britain, British Dental Association, East Sussex, economics, Eddie Crouch, healthcare, nanny state, National Health Service, politics, regulation, socialism, socialist single payer systems, taxes, UK, your moneyhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/…
Health service dentists have been forced to go on holiday or spend time on the golf course this month despite millions of patients being denied dental care.
Many have fulfilled their annual work quotas allotted by the National Health Service and have been turning patients away because they are not paid to do extra work. This is despite the fact that more than 7m people in Britain are unable to find an NHS dentist.
Patients have been told they must either pay privately or return in April when the new work year begins. People suffering from toothache have been advised to go to hospital.
Areas affected include Merseyside, Derbyshire, Birmingham and East Sussex. Eddie Crouch, secretary of the Birmingham local dental committee, estimates that up to a third of dentists in the West Midlands have run out of work or have had to reduce the number of NHS patients they treat. “Patients in pain have had to shop around to find a dentist that has not used up their quota,” he said.
The British Dental Association fears that other dentists have been unable to meet their quotas and will be forced to pay back thousands of pounds to the NHS.
The health department says dentists should have managed their workload throughout the year.
I love when the “rights” of the people conflict with the “rights” of the workers. I thought these socialist single payer systems were supposed to get rid of the money issue so that those who really care could run things without worry. That everyone would be cared for without question. No turning people away by greedy, money grubbing, capitalist doctors. Am I to assume these dentists care for their paycheck more than their patients? Too bad the British people are taxed so much to pay for the NHS otherwise they would have no problem just going to a private dentist. I guess they are going to have to schedule their toothaches for when the dentists can work.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Anybody seen this? Looks interesting.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Haven’t seen it but… it’d be more interesting if the source information for their stats wasn’t the Ministerio de Salud Publica (Cuban Ministry of Health); UNDP Human Development Report (looks/reads like a stereotypical eco-leftist site); the Vice Ministry for Medical Education, Ministry of Public Health, Viceministry for Cooperation and Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana. The WHO stats used in Sicko come from the Cuban government too. No way I’m going to trust the Cuban government let alone any government stats face value. Even more Moore admitted he exaggerated (edit: called it a red herring) Cuba’s health system in his movie.