NEWS STORY: Dentist Lobby Plots Against Obamacare

Posted: June 25, 2012 / Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2

One of the many reforms in the Affordable Care Act is a provision allowing certain non-dentists to perform low-level dentistry tasks. Dentists don’t like this because the cartelization of dentistry services increases dentist incomes (you can read about how this works here, here, and here.) The Wall Street Journal reports on the dentist lobby (the American Dental Association), its determination to repeal that part of Obamacare, and its vast power in general. This quote was particularly chilling:

"We pay people to find out information," said an ADA lobbyist. "That's their job."

Read the full article here: Dentist Lobby Plots Against Obamacare

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