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NHS Dentists
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How does this work? I pay National Insurance (which isn't cheap these days). My dentist recently annouced that he has stopped NHS treatment. There are no others in my area who will take on new patients. So I arrange through my employer to have dental insurance. I pay for it out of my salary but presumably at preferential rates. This is taxed as a benefit in kind! So I pay national insurance for NHS dentistry that I can't use and I'm taxed on having private medical insurance! It's the same for normal medical insurance but I can't really complain about that as I know I have a choice (though it does bug me that by choosing to opt of NHS hospital care and arranging my own medical insurance, I get taxed on that too and yet still pay full NI contributions).
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