NHS dentistry should be a warning for everyone about what's going to happen with the rest of the NHS. the government systematically underfunded it to the point that it's practically collapsed as a public service, and patients have moved to private healthcare in droves. those who can't afford to go private frequently resort to home dentistry now, because they can't find an NHS dentist to see them
the politicians in our political system don't defend the NHS because they don't represent our class interests. they're funded by capitalists, depend on the capitalist owned press for their PR, and will get cushy jobs after politics for their good service. they're the representatives of capital and aim to keep the system running profitably for business, knowing that they'll get their cut of the spoils for their good work
the NHS might have been a necessary concession during the last cold war, when the west was trying to prove that it could provide for its people as well as the USSR, but the soviet union is gone now and the working class in the UK is so disorganised and underdeveloped as to pose no threat to the capitalist system. the unprofitable niceties are all going to be stripped away unless we organise as a class and fight back
