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The dental clinics do this to everyone, not just the poor. It's an issue with all forms of health care. If a hospital makes money for each test done, the finan
by nitwit005 6y ago
The dental clinics do this to everyone, not just the poor.
It's an issue with all forms of health care. If a hospital makes money for each test done, the financial incentive will be to run a lot of tests.
- WalterBright 6y ago> The dental clinics do this to everyone I had a dentist pull that on me, I told him off, and went to another one. (He wanted to pull my wisdom teeth, I told him there was nothing wrong with them, and there still isn't 40 years later. Not even a cavity.)
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> It's an issue with all forms of health care. If a hospital makes money for each test done That doesn't line up. In some countries, such as the UK, doctors are generally salaried employees. With that said, I don't think the same is true of UK dentists.
- goatinaboat 6y agoIn some countries, such as the UK, doctors are generally salaried employees. This is not true. A GP practice is a private partnership like a legal chambers which bills the NHS for its services. This fact is strangely overlooked by people angry about “privatising the NHS”, it’s always been this way.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoSome UK GPs are salaried. I don't know the proportions. https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-doctors https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
- goatinaboat 6y agoSome UK GPs are salaried. I don't know the proportions. Paid a salary by the private practice they work for, again just like a junior lawyer would be.