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Bernie's constitutional proposal would force everybody to get their teeth pulled with free shit 'Bernie Dentures' fabricated at the age of 30. Win-win! No more teeth, no more dental disease. Everybody can gum their kale and hash brownies.

Real doctors have Physician Assistants. Why can’t dentists have Dental Therapists?

It can be hard to keep smiles healthy in rural areas, where dentists are few and far between and residents often are poor and lack dental coverage. Efforts to remedy the problem have produced varying degrees of success.

The biggest obstacle? Dentists.

Dozens of countries, such as New Zealand, use "dental therapists" — a step below a dentist, similar to a physician's assistant or a nurse practitioner — to bring basic dental care to remote areas, often tribal reservations. But in the U.S., dentists and their powerful lobby have battled legislatures for years on the drive to allow therapists to practice.

This is the same old problem that afflicts every aspect of American life: lobbyists pay off our "representatives" to make sure that the law requires us all to pay a premium to whatever group the lobbyists are representing, big pharma, the AMA, the ADA, realtor scum, and most especially the US Chamber of Commerce.

The excuses are manifold: "safety", "the environment", "racism" but the reality is always being trapped into paying higher prices than a free market would ask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking