Something Rotten in Paris

In more health care news, banging the Dem's drum on page ONE, the NY Times has discovered a new healthcare crisis--not enough people are getting in to see a dentist. They are "uninsured".

The horror.

(Recall this: "So, out of 45 million uninsured Americans, 9 million aren’t American, 9 million are insured, 18 million are young and healthy. And the rest of these poor helpless waifs trapped in Uninsured Hell waiting for Hillary to rescue them are, in fact, wealthier than the general population.")

But I digress. Well in France they have had "universal" health care for some time (which one of its experts calls broken and suggests emulating the US private system---maybe they will export their babies here--Michael Moore you lying leftie sicko call your office) and there is still something rotten in Paris---they don't brush their teeth anyway. Perhaps you missed this from The Economist, quoting Le Figaro:

The article quotes a pair of dentists, one from a Paris teaching hospital and one from the French dentistry association, and offers the following statistics (without citing sources).

- one million French citizens never brush their teeth

- half of all French do not brush their teeth in the evening

- 57% of French children under five have never brushed their teeth

- the average French citizen uses between one and two toothbrushes in a year

So much for romance in France.

I suggest the NY Times blare a big headline across their front pages for a week or so---BRUSH YOUR TEETH. It's the least they can do. Given their influence on the MSM, perhaps they could solve the problem here singlehandedly.

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