[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“£300,000”

Obviously, overpaid......

[ConservaTexan]

British Dentists making £300,000 a year??? Do we have any of those $400 hammers left we could sell them?

[FormerACLUmember]

Class envy UK propaganda.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Have we seen an improvement in British teeth?

[FormerACLUmember]

My guess is that these are the Oral Surgeons and difficult case Implant Specialists in private practice.

It is not possible to earn $600K (300K pounds) from the government health insurance by filling cavities.

And keep in mind that the marginal tax rate on high earners is well in excess of 50%, so they are basically working for the government anyway.

[Jim Noble]

Nearly 400 NHS dentists earned more than £300,000 last year, new figures show, despite millions of patients struggling to access free treatment.

What do those two things have to do with one another?

[Gaffer]

This is the socialist madness. You play by their rules and beat them
at it and they get pissed and want to control you even more. It will be the same here.

[eggman]

Who runs the NHS? Well, that would be the Department of Health. It would seem to me that the article should focus on the government agency that allows this rather than the doctors who, if given a free market to operate in, would likely not be able to make that much unless the patients and their insurance companies thought their services were worth that much.

Much easier to demonize the doctors and force people to pull their own teeth.

[Swampmarine]

Is this office gross or personal net? How are their offices set up? Who pays the overhead and office labor (hygienist), accounting and dental record costs?

[aShepard]

Now, Now!

Is that 300k pounds for their office, or is that what the individual dentist takes away after paying for his staff, rent, supplies??

It’s reported that Oprah makes 6 kajillion a year - but that the contract, and then she has to pay for all the production, etc. I’m sure she nets ok, but these headlines are totally misleading.

[poobear]

“The income is before tax but after expenses, which typically include the costs of renting surgeries and paying staff, have been taken into account. “

After UK taxes thay might leave them with about 70 pounds.