They just built over 1000 homes near me, but not one dentist or doctors. Now the small local surgeries are expected to take these new households on. Again government policy not holding up to community needs.
If you assume 2.5 people per household for those new homes, their needs would be met by the addition of a single GP to an existing surgery.
Then consider that the typical buyers of new builds will be younger and healthier than average.
And that of those ~2,500 new residents, some are likely to be doctors themselves who would otherwise be unable to live in the area.
And that GP surgeries are private for-profit businesses.
And you realise the issues are more complex than they might at first seem.
The world we live in, yes.
> But this is also why a purely free-market approach doesn't functionally work in many cases. This problem is solvable by government intervention.
Sure, or we might end up growing the wrong crops per government order and experience massive starvation all across the country. I hope you like potatoes!
Sure you can. When you build an office block or a shopping mall do you put in toilets or do you wait till the shoppers start shopping then see if their demands include going to the bathroom?
All the talk of NHS treatment being "free at the point of delivery" is bollocks when you're talking about dentistry; NHS dentistry isn't free, unless you're a child or a pensioner. And if you need something like a crown, you probably can't get that on the NHS at all.