For some reason the lib media seems to think this story should justify national healthcare. Why, I don't know. After all, the same folks in charge of Medicaid will be in charge of nationalized healthcare. If anything, this story serves as a reminder as to why national healthcare would be a disaster.
Anyone who thinks this story should support national healthcare should make an appointment with a Medicare/Medicaid approved proctologist because they have their heads up their butts.
Exactly- if there were less government benefits, maybe she would have been more resourceful. I had an abscessed tooth where the infection spread to my face and my dental insurance would not begin for a couple of weeks. I went to the ER and they were able to treat me with antibiotic right away, clearing up the inflection and giving me time to have the tooth removed when my insurance kicked in. They offered to bill me (I did have health insurance) so it seems to me that she could have done the same thing and then paid off the bill later, even she paid a little at a time. Instead she waited on the government, which means waiting on an inpersonal and bureaucratic process.
No doctor or dentist is going to let a child die because they don't have insurance.