Shame! Maryland Boy Dies Due to Tooth Decay

[MattShizzle]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116.html?referrer=facebook


Another example of how the health care system in the US is no good. Dental care in particular is an unaffordable luxury for many. I would say "too many," but 1 is too many.

[Stand Your Ground]

RIP. What a fucked up world we have.

On a side note, I've had an absessed tooth for a couple years now..:(

[The Douche]

As somebody who is prone to surface cavities (I have two untreated ones currently) this really fucks with me. I was just thinking the other day about how infections can spread from your teeth/gums to your brain, and how I don't have health insurance.

[Rakhmetov]

My teeth are all fucked up. :(

[DaComm]

Thats terrible, health care should be a guarenteed right, not a priveledge alien to the unemployed and poor. Despite these occurances, I just love how right wingers like Glenn Beck insist that people of every class come to America for health care, so that, if they are lucky, they may die from preventable diseases/infection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGeZQrpZbjI

(Sarcastically) "We are letting people die on the streets here" Pretty much.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

This is scary and I am so sorry for the boy.
I too cannot afford going to the dentist. I went a few weeks ago, just to find out my (very shitty) insurance doesn't cover it, so all I can really do is just brush and floss a lot at home and hope for the best (my teeth are miss shapen a bit, and one of my crowns is fucked up/breaking... Point: no matter what I do, I still need regular check-ups)

Still amazes me we don't have universal healthcare yet, especially with the direction this country is going.

[Obs]

Sometimes, the world is just so cartoonishly evil I can't even bother getting angry.

[Ele'ill]

So happy to know that I'm not the only one with really fucked up teeth! My teeth are straight and everything but I have a broken tooth that doesn't give me any pain at all, my gums are alright I guess as they don't bleed or anything when I brush them but I know I have cavities in all of my teeth. No pain, I just know they're there. I suppose infections like that spread super fast. I simply cannot afford fixing- I can't find decent work either that will offer the money/insurance.

[Kuppo Shakur]

infections can spread from your teeth/gums to your brain
Whaaat. I'm in trouble.:(

[The pizza crazed Anarchist]

My teeth are so fucked up. So much so that one of my front tooth broke in half. I don't get any insurance for six months. :crying:

[Hebrew Hammer]

This is sad, I didn't even know you could die from such things.

[MattShizzle]

I haven't been to a dentist in over a decade. I could afford it now that I have medicare due to disability. When I was working the only insurance offered had a $1000 deductable and no area dentist accepted it. Yeah, the right wing idiots try to say we have the best health care in the world. Well, if you're rich it's true. If you're middle class it's pretty bad and if you're working class or poor it's nearly as bad as the third world (or actually worse than some countries considered "3rd world" such as Cuba.) Saying the US health care system is good is a bit like saying Antarctica is hot.

[Summerspeaker]

Yeah, I've been trying to figure out a way to get dental care I can afford but I haven't discovered anything yet. What a sad story.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

As someone whose racked up over $15,000 in dental bills I know something about health for your teeth-it's expensive and incredibly frustrating.

I was actually in the oral surgeon's office today to remove an infected tooth and some of you might have been surprised at the amount of people there during 8:00 in the morning.This is most asurdedly a sector which needs immideate attention,because tooth health is something that everyone needs to stay ontop of.Yet this becomes difficult if monetary resources are scarce.One of the reasons for the need of a more humane system.

P.S: The only way I was able to pay off the bills was due to a charity which helped me out with the main bill body.Also,since I was so young at teh time,my dentist did a lot of work for free.Insurance helped some.Needless to say I was very fortunate.

[Tim Finnegan]

Sometimes, the world is just so cartoonishly evil I can't even bother getting angry.
That was pretty much my reaction to this, yeah. Some things make you want to march into the street and start flinging molotovs, but others just make you want to slump in the corner and think about something else. :(

[Cork Socialist]

Thats really crazy to see someone die from something like that :S

Shocking to hear these things happen

[Chambered Word]

This article is from 2007 but I felt pretty fucking awful from reading it, still. :( I want to throttle people who ramble on about death panels. The real death panels have been there long before Obama's name was even known.

[Comrade_Oscar]

And people don't want to reform healthcare how many examples do you need be for you DO SOMETHING. Do more people really need to die for you to realize that the way things are now ARE NOT WORKING. I can see big rich people not wanting change but why the hell would the average person not want. The average American cannot see that many leftist policies HELP THEM!

[Coach Trotsky]

Capitalism---the international "death panel" system that wounds and slays many with an 'invisible hand'!