Socialized Medicine Today: Kids, Rotten Teeth, Hospitals
A view of the future of Democrats get their way here in the US of A
Increasing numbers of young children, particularly from poor areas, are being taken into hospital to have rotten teeth removed, according to research by academics published today.
While children’s teeth are in general better than in the past owing to fluoride toothpaste and fluoride in the water supply in some areas, there has been a worrying rise in serious problems, chiefly among the most deprived.
More than 470,000 children needed hospital admission for treatment relating to their teeth between 1997 and 2006, according to the research by the Peninsula dental school in Exeter and the UCL Eastman dental institute in London. Since some children were admitted more than once – one girl had teeth pulled out on seven separate occasions over the nine-year period – there were a total of 517,885 “episodes of care”. Half of these were for tooth decay (dental caries) and 80% resulted in extraction.
“If rates of caries and other dental infection are steady, why is there such a marked increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital for dental treatment? And why is it that more and more children are being electively admitted to hospital for extractions? Clearly these questions need to be answered in order to cut the number of admissions, improve dental care for children and ultimately reduce the financial burden to the NHS.”
Notice that last part: reduce the financial burden to the NHS. That will be an overriding concern if socialized health care comes to the USA. Because it is not about providing quality health care: it is about giving every citizen substandard health care for political reasons and saving money.
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Posted by William Teach on April 10, 2009 8:35 am
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National Health Care will be the breaking point to get rid of the bama,Piglosi et al.
Poor quality of treatment will break the backs of these commie-socialist perveyors of PAIN and their National Nuisance.
Past Canadian and British friends convinced me I was lucky to have a free capitalist run HMO.
If their program is anything like Medicaid here in the States, few dental providers are willing to accept “pittance remittance” and do not accept Medicaid patients (oftentimes releasing current patients who switch to Medicaid, as well) – so people who cannot afford to go to the dentist do not, their teeth become infected, sometimes leading to systemic infection (sepsis), and the only way they can be treated is in a hospital setting – at higher cost than the visit to the dentist would have been.
So the answer seems to be what we face now: Expand programs like SCHIPS to include MORE people (who will now likely be released from their providers and left without care) but continue to pay far less then services are worth – oh, and support the program with an ever-dwindling funding source, an excise tax on tobacco products (after raising that tax to exorbitant levels so more smokers quit and reduce the amount of funding coming in even more).
Makes sense to me! Then we ALL get nothing for something, instead of a few getting something for nothing and a few getting something for a little something more.
Myself, I can’t wait until Obama takes over management of chronic diseases. I will be one of the first on the list: The Burden On Society List, that is, with a chronic and incurable “friend” like multiple sclerosis to follow me around the rest of my (soon to be further shortened) life.
If their program is anything like Medicaid here in the States, few dental providers are willing to accept “pittance remittance” and do not accept Medicaid patients (oftentimes releasing current patients who switch to Medicaid, as well) – so people who cannot afford to go to the dentist do not, their teeth become infected, sometimes leading to systemic infection (sepsis), and the only way they can be treated is in a hospital setting – at higher cost than the visit to the dentist would have been.
So the answer seems to be what we face now: Expand programs like SCHIPS to include MORE people (who will now likely be released from their providers and left without care) but continue to pay far less then services are worth – oh, and support the program with an ever-dwindling funding source, an excise tax on tobacco products (after raising that tax to exorbitant levels so more smokers quit and reduce the amount of funding coming in even more).
Makes sense to me! Then we ALL get nothing for something, instead of a few getting something for nothing and a few getting something for a little something more.
Myself, I can’t wait until Obama takes over management of chronic diseases. I will be one of the first on the list: The Burden On Society List, that is, with a chronic and incurable “friend” like multiple sclerosis to follow me around the rest of my (soon to be further shortened) life.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
This is a ridiculous assumption. The reason for rotted teeth is poor diets and no access to dental care. Despite an over-fluoridated food supply in the US along with a 70% fluoridation rate, tooth decay is a crisis in the US also because 80% of dentists refuse Medicaid patients and 120 million Americans don’t have dental insurance.
Dentists are getting rich catering to higher incomed and well-insured people while lobbying against any other viable groups from filling the teeth dentists neglect.
As a result, 6 million Medicaid children have unfilled cavities and our emegency rooms are unundated with people seeking dental care they can’t get anywhere else. At least two children have died in recent years from untreated tooth decay that festered and spread to vital organs.
The common denominator in the US and England’s oral health crisis is lack of access to dentists because dentists are selective about whom they treat.
Dentists either have got to be forced to treat more low-income people or they have to stop lobbying against any viable groups willing to do so such as dental therapists.
Organized dentistry is just another special-interest group that have convinced our legislators to get laws passed that benefit themselves.
Bad teeth in children whose parents numb their own days and nights with smoking pot.
Particulars with what is wrong with their kids can easily be ignored if they are high all of the time.
There are free dental clinics all over the United States.