Yea… I was told that it’s better to remove wisdom teeth sooner rather than later, if they are causing even the slightest of problems, as it only gets worse over time… as you eventually found out.
I chipped a back molar on a pellet shot in a roasted rabbit that I made, and I’m right royally pissed about it… we live and learn.
They do have their uses. When I was a kid I incessatly sucked sherbet lemons, and lost my lower 7th, which was too rotten to save, the Wisdom tooth replaced it and so I still have that one.
Well now that the unimportant hospitalisations have been severely cut, the NHS can return to treating real cases of illnesses that need immediate attention and treatment.
How many £1000s of millions/billions have been wasted on non-emergency call-outs and surgeries… citing depression and mental illness, while cancer cases etc. were delayed for many months, resulting in many deaths.
I would not have become so ill from something as simple as fatigue, if GPs had not been told to put drug-addicts and alcoholics first, as a priority for funding their rehab and long-term care… which then resulted in me needing long-term care.
Thank goodness that sanity once again reigns supreme.
I think your gripe is personal and not necessarily emprically based.
The NHS is generally very expert at triage and quick to spot malingering. The reall problem of waste in the last few years, has been the £5 billion cut in social care with the subsequent drop in places for old people to get discharged from hospital. The government has been quick at victim blaming by calling that “bed blocking”. And one has to wonder at the cavalier attitude to covid is a plan to solve the lack of funding to social care by killing off the old people as much as they can.
If you want to call that “return to sanity” then that is your opinion, which I could not share.
These “old people” are someone’s granparents, and parents.
every time the left here tries to wrangle in the insurance companies, (which is where all the money goes), the right comes back in and will legit dedicate an entire decade to suing all over the country to try and get those efforts shot down.
they’ve convinced their base that having publicly available, affordable healthcare is socialism and the poor, sick people of the south come out in droves to vote to make sure they dont end up with any of that socialism. it’s maddening to watch.
The question is not easy to answer. But I would say that cosmetic surgery and treatments paid for by medicare/medicaid reinforce the already existing (and especially in English-speaking countries) differences between the different classes of health insurance.
People “at the bottom” keep their insecurities by believing they are no longer beautiful enough, people “at the top” get new insecurities by believing they are no longer beautiful enough.
The owners of the private health insurance companies will be happy about this, but the taxpayers for the state health insurance companies will not.