The following appeared on MSNBC.com today:
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.
If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.
By the time Deamonte's own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the
To paraphrase John Scalzi’s excellent blog, I’m not going to complain about Medicaid, or the lack of dentists who accept it. I’m not going to rip the government (federal, state, or federal), nor criticize his family for letting things slide so far.
In a nation of such obvious wealth, blame need not be assessed for such an event. It’s a sin. Period.
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That's it. No more anonymous comments. Anyone who's that ignorant AND lacks the onions to leave any identifiable trace can look elsewhere for his dimwitted comments.
Bill O'Reilly, have you no shame?
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