Socialized medicine in England - aside from being the model that US National Democrats believe we should raise taxes to provide to Americans - is in the news because the dental services there have become so bad, citizens are performing extractions on themselves, with pliers, out of sick desperation.

“One person in Lancashire said he had carried out 14 separate extractions with a pair of pliers,” Sky News reports.

From USA Today, though if you just gave it a glance you wouldn’t get the point from the headline.

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