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Toothpaste conspiracy rule (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Twitter Nick Jack Pappas@Pappiness Why do people care if 9 out of 10 dentists recommend a toothpaste brand? Dentists make more money when you have bad teeth. I want a toothpaste recommended by 9 out of 10 health insurance companies.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

USA centric thinking... The dentists anywhere else recommend the good stuff so you stay the fuck away from their clinic (they get paid all the same by the gov no matter how many they treat)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know where you live, but for example

19% provide only private care, with no NHS, and a further 14% said they worked predominantly (over 75% of their time) in private care. Only 15% of responding dentists are fully NHS, with no private care, and a further 27% said they worked predominantly (over 75% of their time) in NHS care.

Source.

And I'm sure the numbers are similar or worse in every country where a capitalist government is running a pseudo-social service. Because they're still more concerned about the bottom line than they are about your wellbeing, so they've sold large chunks of the service off, and us poors who can't afford to go private have to put up with a deliberately underfunded, sub standard service.

Either way, you're not getting the top notch selfless service you think you are.