The New Agenda of American Dentistry

With the ascension of managed health care in the 1990s, both medicine and dentistry have taken an invidious turn in this country. The fundamental reason is that medicine is no longer run by doctors and dentistry is no longer run by dentists. Or even by the AMA or the ADA. Now both professions have prostituted themselves to a higher entity the insurance cartels which are run today not by doctors, but by MBAs corporate financiers. All policies, billing procedures, all medical and dental decisions answer to one prime directive: profit. It's certainly not a hidden conspiracy. These businesses enjoy success today because they do what corporations are designed to do: make money for their shareholders.