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.
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Very nice treatment of a complex issue. We can see from the situation explained here that the problem is not as cut and dry as providing health care, but also involves proper health awareness education, especially for young people. It's tragic that the story ended this way. But it does beg the question: how can one's teeth become so infected in the beginning? I wish that the article would have addressed this more directly.
