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Showing posts with label State funded dentistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State funded dentistry. Show all posts

Monday, August 7, 2023

Peter Williams: The Tooth of It


State funded dentistry is worthwhile but major parties aren't interested

What the Greens did yesterday with the launch of their plan for state funded dental care was to reprise a policy that the late Jim Anderton and his Progressives were pushing in 2011.

But their way of paying for it through a wealth tax is nothing short of bizarre. As one wit said, many an experienced and long serving dentist would be funding his own business through the wealth tax he’d have to pay under this dopey arrangement.