Tooth decay kills local boy

[forestal]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Lack of health care coverage, which would have cost the public $70 to have this boys tooth pulled, resulted in over $250,000 in treatment that ultimately came too late to save his life.

An ounce of prevention can save someone's live, and save you $250,000.00

[size=+2]For Want of a Dentist[/size]
Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain
[size=-1]By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 28, 2007; B01
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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 Prince George's County boy died.


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[Azzy]

NFW

 

[2ndAmendment]

If his family had not lost its Medicaid.

Sorry about the child, but they had free health care. Why did they lose it? Usually lost for fraud. So don't blame the system. The system was there until mom probably did something stupid.

 

[Mikeinsmd]

If I've ]

I see your dumbass is right on top of things as usual....
Try searching next time

 

[vraiblonde]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Forestal, normally I zen past you but I feel it's time for us to have a chat.

Do you intend to ever get tired of buying into the brainwashing tactics of the Leftist media?

#1, the kid didn't die of a "toothache" - that is a ruse to get you to feel outraged that such a thing could happen.

#2, if his mother was so intent on finding a dentist for her other son, wouldn't it make sense that the same dentist could care for both boys?

#3, his mother WAS insured - by Medicaid. That's what Medicaid IS, health insurance for low-income individuals.

#4, doesn't it make you suspicious that this kid's rotten tooth actually got so far as to cause a brain infection? Do you think that happened over a matter of days?

I challenge you to start thinking for yourself, instead of letting some reporter that YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW lead you down the path of ignorance and hysteria. It should embarrass you to be taken in by such a transparently propagandistic story.

 

[BS Gal]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

I'd donate $250 to get your head pulled out of your ass, Forestal.

 

[forestal]

Ah thy sympathy for the poor shall not go unnoticed nor unrewarded!

 

[Azzy]

I'd donate $250 to get your head pulled out of your ass, Forestal.

I never got an offer like that

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Ah thy sympathy for the poor shall not go unnoticed nor unrewarded!

I have sympathy for morons. Go get Coventry17 and c'mere.

 

[Pete]

Ah thy sympathy for the poor shall not go unnoticed nor unrewarded!

Can you have enough sympathy for dumbasses to save them from sure death when they are too stupid to survive?

If she had come to me and asked for $80 to get her kids tooth pulled I would have given it to her. So would the hundreds of churches and other outreach groups, and probably several dentists if she had asked or made arrangments for repayment or plead her case.

Something just isn't right here. She already had free medical. The boy showed no symptoms so even if he went to the dentist he wouldn't have treated something that had no symptoms. When he did show symptoms why didn't she do anything and everything?

Those who sait back on their asses and wait for society to save them from death, are doomed to die disappointed.

 

[Pandora]

My best friend's son was rushed to Washington Hospital Center the day before Christmas for an abscess. He nearly died and he thought he just had the flu. :shrug: They had to do surgery ASAP or the infection would have or could have gone to his brain.

His first sign it wasn't the flu is when he had trouble swallowing.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Ah thy sympathy for the poor shall not go unnoticed nor unrewarded!

I probably give more out of one paycheck to be used for the poor or other worthy causes than you do in a year, so unless you have ponied up personal bucks to help others, don't go condemning others. You talk the talk; it is more important to walk the walk.

 

[Sadysue]

If she had come to me and asked for $80 to get her kids tooth pulled I would have given it to her. So would the hundreds of churches and other outreach groups, and probably several dentists if she had asked or made arrangments for repayment or plead her case.

I have to agree here. I think it was neglect. I believe any dentist that seen this would have helped this boy and worked out a payment.

 

[Pushrod]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Lack of health care coverage, which would have cost the public $70 to have this boys tooth pulled, resulted in over $250,000 in treatment that ultimately came too late to save his life.

Dam% Forestal, I thought it was you who jumped off the Solomons bridge a week ago. Guess I was wrong (wishful thinking).

 

[Hawkeyewife]

This is so sad. Parental neglect and lack of proper intervention by the social welfare system caused this tragic death. Hopefully the mom will work a little harder to get her other (obese) son, the one with six rotting teeth, medical care. I have a feeling she'll probably put her efforts into suing the hospital or the state for damages and put her other son on hold though. Sad.

 

[zimmie]

Hey. Forestal never let parental neglect and personal responsibility get in your way of blaming the government. The only neglect I see here is Social Services not investigating whether his mother is fit to remain a parent to his siblings.

 

[itsbob]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Lack of health care coverage, which would have cost the public $70 to have this boys tooth pulled, resulted in over $250,000 in treatment that ultimately came too late to save his life.

An ounce of prevention can save someone's live, and save you $250,000.00

[size=+2]For Want of a Dentist[/size]
Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain
[size=-1]By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 28, 2007; B01
[/size]

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 Prince George's County boy died.


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You underlined the important part for us.. "AN ounce of Prevention...."

So if Mom spent 1.00 a month on dental hygiene instead of letting their teeth rot and depending on the government to fix it, her son would still be alive??

Thanks for underlining and clarifying the true root of the problem..



Get it.. root.. of the problem.. abscess... tooth ache...

I crack myself up sometimes..

 

[Sweet 16]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Hello.....McFly!!! There is NO SUCH THING as *FREE* health care. That is left-wing propagandist BS that politicians cooked up to appease the masses who refuse to take care of themselves. Who do you think pays for it? Not the Government. It's you and me -- you know, the ones already paying for their own health insurance, mortgage, electricity, phone, car, etc. I choose my charities -- why should the Government force me to support those who won't (notice I didn't say *can't*)help themselves? How much more of the burden am I expected to carry?

No, this is a case of pure neglect. That kid didn't get sick overnight. She could have gotten help before it got that bad.

 

[PsyOps]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Lack of health care coverage, which would have cost the public $70 to have this boys tooth pulled, resulted in over $250,000 in treatment that ultimately came too late to save his life.

An ounce of prevention can save someone's live, and save you $250,000.00

[size=+2]For Want of a Dentist[/size]
Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain
[size=-1]By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 28, 2007; B01
[/size]

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 Prince George's County boy died.


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Forest, I'm not going to call you any names, but I believe you are misguided in that it was the "free medical system" Medicade an the perception that this would be there for them, that failed this boy. You are proposing more of it?

 

[chernmax]

If I've ever seen a case for a free health care system this is it.

Lack of health care coverage, which would have cost the public $70 to have this boys tooth pulled, resulted in over $250,000 in treatment that ultimately came too late to save his life.

An ounce of prevention can save someone's live, and save you $250,000.00

[size=+2]For Want of a Dentist[/size]
Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain
[size=-1]By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 28, 2007; B01
[/size]

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 Prince George's County boy died.


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