Sooner of Later Someone Says the Truth

I truly believe that someone, somewhere always knows the truth about what happened or why something happened. Many times however, we the public are left to profession speculators  i.e. the media to form our own conclusions.

This morning I heard one of the aviation analysts for CNN and himself an active commercial pilot, talk about the recent murder/suicide of the co-pilot when he intentionally crashed the plane. What the analyst said (and I will paraphrase here):

"One of the issues for budget airlines is that they pay the pilots significantly less than the full service airlines and therefore they do not attract the best or most talented pilots to fly their planes.

Put another way...You get what you pay for.

How many times have I told you that when you select a dental office that participates with many insurance companies or advertises cut rates there MUST be significant differences in quality between that office and an office that does not participate with many insurance companies.

Let me explain HOW and where those differences will be:

1. The quality of the materials will be lower. The dentist cannot afford a $100 a tube for resin for front teeth and will look for a 'no name', low cost $50 a tube resin.
2. The staff turns over constantly, is not motivated and lacks full understanding of the work being performed.
3. The dentist is a recent graduate from dental school with limited experience.
4. The dentist is older but takes the minimum amount of continuing education which is just enough to keep his or her license.
5. The dentist would never consider taking a continuing education course costing $10,000 and closing their office for a week but instead takes a $99 course on a Friday morning.
6. The dentist uses an off shore dental lab, mainly in China so that they can pay less than 1/2 what a mid-level American lab charges.

As you can see from what the aviation analyst said and from what I just told you, you must EXPECT that there will be significant differences in quality when you select a low cost service or product.

We have known this for 100 years but is nice to hear it from an expert just to remind us.