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Bupa Dental Care to cut 85 practices amid UK dentist shortage | Dentists
Bupa Dental Care is to cut 85 dental practices this year in a move that will affect 1,200 staff across the UK, amid a national shortage of dentists and “systemic” challenges across the industry. The private healthcare group said patients at the affected practices had not been able to access the NHS dental service they needed. The provider, which provides private and NHS dental care, has not been able to recruit enough dentists for NHS care in many practices for months and in some cases years, it said. Bupa said the 85 practices will be closed, sold or merged later this year, bringing the total number of practices in the…
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Is California breaking its promise to cut health care costs?
Brian Iv works in a factory in Orange County, earning around $26 per hour. He suffers chronic pain from a lifetime of manual labor jobs and previous workplace injuries, but often treats the pain with home remedies or traditional Cambodian practices. Going to the doctor is too expensive, he said. Iv recently got a raise and was able to purchase health insurance through his company, but for a long time he had a Covered California Silver Plan, a mid-tier plan under the state’s version of the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace. A visit to a primary care doctor cost nearly $50, and every time Iv picked up a prescription it…
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