The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - April 17, 2024


Only 0.6% of dentists signed on to Trudeau Universal Dental plan


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In my previous video discussing why I think Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' universal dental care plan was going to fall flat on its face, we had gotten some news that very few dentists were actually signing up to deliver the universal care plan.

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00:00:00.000 In my previous video discussing why I think Justin Trudeau and the Liberals' universal dental care plan was going to fall flat on its face,
00:00:08.440 we had gotten some news back that across Canada, very few dentists were actually signing up to deliver the universal care.
00:00:16.160 This is a program that basically relies on underpaying dentists for their services
00:00:20.660 and hoping that enough of them are willing to do their very technical and cost-heavy job for like $15.
00:00:27.060 It was obviously going to fail at the outset, but I at the time had assumed,
00:00:32.300 well, maybe there's going to be like 4% or 5%, maybe up to 9% uptake,
00:00:36.120 but it will be a small minority of dentists actually willing to deliver this sort of care.
00:00:40.820 I didn't realize it was as pathetic as it actually was.
00:00:44.560 Here's a clip of Conservative MP Stephen Ellis actually saying what the real uptick rates are.
00:00:50.060 It's 0.6% in PEI, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
00:00:55.280 Look at this.
00:00:56.060 The costly NDP-Liberal coalition have announced another poorly conceived federal idea.
00:01:01.540 Their dental care debacle is failing Canadians. 0.96
00:01:04.380 I have one simple question.
00:01:05.780 How many dentists in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI have signed up for the dental care debacle?
00:01:12.300 The Honourable Minister of Health.
00:01:16.800 It's great news, Mr. Speaker, because unlike the member opposite,
00:01:19.880 we're working with dental providers and we're opening up a new portal,
00:01:23.700 which means that in order to participate, all they have to do is accept that dental card and provide service.
00:01:30.220 And the dentists that I'm talking to as we work through these issues of the negotiation
00:01:34.180 are extremely excited to do what the member is not,
00:01:37.420 which is to make sure that every Canadian from coast to coast to coast gets oral health care.
00:01:42.640 That means 1.8 million seniors and soon 9 million Canadians who will have the oral health care that they need.
00:01:51.020 Just notice how boisterous he is about how great their program is.
00:01:56.280 And he's talking to dentists that are super excited.
00:01:59.000 I don't think he realizes that Stephen Ellis actually has the background numbers on the dentists that are participating.
00:02:04.620 Well, interestingly enough, the Minister of Health of the NDP Liberal government has been singing the praises
00:02:13.500 and photo ops of this program for months now.
00:02:15.740 Their plan is lacking and it's failing Canadians. 0.79
00:02:18.860 One simple question once again to the Minister.
00:02:21.580 How many dentists in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI have signed up for the botched care announcement?
00:02:27.740 I'll actually give him the answer. It's 8 out of 1,107.
00:02:37.180 So if Mark Holland was talking to people that were super excited, that guy was searching.
00:02:43.220 And I guarantee you, the only people that are signing up for this program are people very new to the dental field
00:02:48.320 who don't have a lot of clients and are willing to take the universal dental insurance in order to do their job
00:02:54.760 because they don't have anybody else.
00:02:55.940 That's the only people who are actually going to sign up to do this work.
00:02:59.720 This is the problem with a lot of government programs.
00:03:01.940 It relies on actually paying the service providers or people providing the product way less than they actually should be.
00:03:09.220 And you'll get some people out there saying, well, they should be accepting less.
00:03:12.340 The government is bulk purchasing their services.
00:03:14.780 What do you think insurance companies are already doing?
00:03:17.160 They're paying out dentists at like half the rate an insurance company would.
00:03:21.000 And they're trying to get rid of the deductible entirely, which means that dentists are being paid like 50 bucks to do a teeth cleaning
00:03:28.620 or to like if you need a cavity filled, they're being paid a couple hundred bucks.
00:03:33.060 And when you think of all the overhead costs on a dentist, this is not a cheap field to be working in.
00:03:38.280 You're making nothing at the end of the day.
00:03:40.320 And so the liberals, this thing is all falling apart and they're just hoping that enough people think I have universal dental care abstractly
00:03:48.100 and they never try and access it.
00:03:49.440 And they somehow are more approving of the liberals because abstractly I now have dental care.
00:03:55.380 It's not true, but I want to see what Mark Holland says to this now.
00:03:58.960 Okay, it just ended right there.
00:04:25.780 And I guess you didn't want to answer.
00:04:27.000 When he's talking about this new portal, yes, more people can sign up and get the card to be able to accept universal dental,
00:04:35.440 but they're not doing it.
00:04:37.140 It's not because of a lack of knowledge about how to navigate the government websites to sign up for these programs.
00:04:43.820 People don't want to deliver the programs because the program sucks.
00:04:46.920 I'm not sure I can put that in any other terms.
00:04:49.700 The program sucks and people don't want to participate because it turns out people want to do their jobs for a good wage.
00:04:55.680 And a good wage is relative to the amount of skill and actual overhead costs that are involved in the job.
00:05:02.680 So dentists are not going to do this for $30 an hour doing incredibly technical work that most people are not qualified to do.
00:05:10.800 And they could have just gone to be accountants or they could have just worked in construction and made way more money.
00:05:15.220 They're basically trying to bully dentists. 0.98
00:05:17.740 And mark my words, in the next year, if the liberals are still around, they're going to try and force dentists to take this care and have to meet quotas for how many universal dental clients they're taking in.
00:05:30.660 And then basically, because dentists are not making money, they're going to have to raise the rates on people with regular insurance or people who don't have insurance at all.
00:05:38.080 So, ridiculous, it really just demonstrates that the liberals do not know what they're doing, but they want votes so they're willing to throw money around at just about any stupid program idea possible.
00:05:49.160 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:05:51.540 I just want to quickly plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:05:57.340 You've heard me talk about it before.
00:05:58.660 If you live on the west side of Calgary, check out my website in the description below and buy a conservative party membership, WyattClaypool.com.
00:06:04.480 And also, there is the TNT and my own legal fund in the description below in the Give, Send, Go link.
00:06:10.780 We have a billionaire developer suing us for defamation.
00:06:13.620 Defamation, he has not proven and actually not provided any evidence for over the past two years.
00:06:19.160 And our article literally referenced this one guy through a Globe and Mail article.
00:06:24.740 So, we hadn't even reported really anything new about him.
00:06:27.760 Yeah, he is somehow trying to sue us for defamation, but not the Globe and Mail who had reported everything about him a year and a half ago.
00:06:33.580 So, absurd, but if you want to help us out, any money in that really does lower the burden of costs on us.
00:06:39.360 We're now up to like $29,000 defending ourselves.
00:06:43.020 Have a good one, guys.