Letter posted by NYS re USA Dentists

Dentists would like you to believe that adding fluoride chemicals into your drinking water is their way of caring for the poor. However, according to the Surgeon General's Oral Health Report, 80% of dentists refuse patient's on gov't subsidized insurance. It's not because it puts them out of business. Dentists make much more money than physicians while working fewer days and fewer hours.

This leaves you and me to foot the bill when a simple unfilled cavity grows, festers and spreads and now qualifies for hospital emergency room care, costing taxpayerst ten times more Some may say dentists have the right to refuse who they treat. However, taxpayers also subsidize their education via federal grants to dental schools. Dentists can't have it both ways. Take the grants - help the poor. Pay your entire Dental School tuition and treat who you want.