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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While it is basically a very good story about a very complex problem, a couple of the really basic issues are addressed only at the end - problems of medicaid bureaucracy and problems of adequate dentist reimbursement. Most jurisdictions try to save money by curring back on medicaid; few publications focus on the results of this.
