Brain Eating Zombies of the Year

It's hard to behave worse than Jazz Pharma.   But I'm going to give it to these guys, since they are the very core of the problem:
The American Dental Association

Dental therapists aim to fill dental-care gap
Dental Therapists are like Physician Assistants.   They can do basic limited procedures like fillings under the supervision of a dentist.  They are trying to get accredited in many states.

The 157,000-member American Dental Association opposes the use of dental therapists, because it conflicts with the group's policy that excludes team members "who work under the guidance or supervision of dentists" from "performing surgical or irreversible procedures," says President Robert Faiella.
In addition, "There's no evidence that using a new workforce model to treat decay will have any impact on the larger (oral health care) problem," he says. The ADA instead favors insurance reforms, community water fluoridation, oral health education and helping people overcome cultural, geographic and language barriers that keep them from getting regular dental care, he says.

I bet they favor insurance reforms.   They want everyone on that reimbursement train.
And fluoridation is nice for teeth, but it doesn't address gum disease which is the primary problem.
And that brings up the fact that I haven't ever seen any reality based oral care information from these people (Brush and Floss!).  I told my dentist about Vitamin D...
And then they blame their clients for the long term results.

The real reason they oppose this model is because they know if people get proper, affordable low level care, they won't require those complicated procedures that dentists need to perform to make their loan payments.  The current system insures inadequate basic care and lots of restorative work.
Practitioners who don't have huge financial obligations don't have that underlying incentive to skew the treatment recommendations that way.

Occasional free dental clinics are merely putting a generous face on the selfish status quo.

There's a reason those people are standing in line overnight:
This "Professional Organization" advocates letting a whole lot of people's heads rot out from the inside so they can keep their money making merry-go-round.