Sad story, 12 year old dies from a tooth ache.

[COOPER]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17372104/

[Esther]

Sad.

But a pimple will do the same thing.

[Trouvere]

Sad.

But a pimple will do the same thing.

It is sad.I hate though that they blame the system.That is what happens when you rely on welfare and expect it to meet all your needs.It does not.Its a bad mindset.

[Digging4Truth]

As I sit here with a throbbing toothache and scheduled to be at the Oral Surgeons office monday... :)

The bulk of this article is simply using the boy's death to promote an agenda.

(Starting to sound like my old self now... I better watch out) :)

But it is clear that this situation is being exploited.

What portion of the article is actually about the boy?

There are so many factors too...

$80... knowing what they know now... could the parents have gotten the extraction done? Sure they could. They probably thought it was a routine toothache and were going to ride it out over the $80. This isn't wildly uncommon among those of us not cash rich.

They may have done the same thing over a $25 co pay.

If the parents had known, by any stretch of the imagination, that this problem was getting this serious then I am sure they would have found a way to do something.

So this is less a case of ... because they didn't have insurance the boy died.. and more a case of parents who probably chose to ride out a temporary toothache (went to Fred's and got some ora-jel and some generic Naproxen Sodium). I am not saying in the least that going to the dentist would not have been a hardship on them. I am sure it would have been. But I think this is just a case of life handing one monumentally bad case of circumstances that no one would have guessed they would have seen happen

I have been trying to ride this jaw splitter for 2 weeks... but then again...I'm hard headed. :)

[Chan]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17372104/
Do you suppose that this boy was a worse sinner than all other sinners that this happened to him? "No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3).

[Rhoni]

I agree that they used the boys death to promote an agenda...but poverty culture is so real and unless you have been there...you have no clue. Medicaid co-pay is one thing, another is not having transportation, and another is trying to determine the greatest need.

If you had seen what I saw today you would sit down and cry.

Sadly, Rhoni