[dcolkitt]

It’s funny but the high cost of both are of those things you mention are the result of artificial regulatory restrictions on supply.

Entrepreneur property developers are ready, able and willing to build a tidal wave of housing, but are shackled by NIMBY zoning laws, building codes, and land use restrictions designed to restrict the supply of housing and push up prices for existing home owners.

The high cost of dentistry is entirely a result of extreme restrictions on new dentists put in place by the ADA. Entrepreneurs are ready, able, and willing to train or import from overseas an army of new, cheap dentists. By they can’t because the ADA hasn’t approved opening any new dental schools since 1980 and won’t let Turkish, Thai and Costa Rican dentists practice in the US.

[brailsafe]

I agree, minimally. I don't want either of those being under the sole discretion of business people. Nobody really does except business people. Overly strict zoning laws probably need to be eliminated or more carefully and frequently thought about at the city level, in part because cities let developers do whatever the hell they want on the outskirts, and prevents new dev on the inner bits entirely