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February 27, 2007
How an American Dies
For Want of a Dentist - washingtonpost.com
This is a national disgrace. We were unwilling to spend US$80 when it would help save his life. We were willing to spend US$250,000 to help him die. Everyone who, in the last 5 years, has opposed changes in our health care system bears some responsibility for this boy's death. With proper medical treatment, proper dental care, proper education-- all things we can easily afford in this richest of all nations-- who knows what kind of man that boy might have grown into. Doctor, Lawyer, garbageman; all of whom pay more taxes than the dead. But we'll never know. His life was too short to do experience the advantages that money can buy; his society was too callous to care...
Posted by Andrew at February 27, 2007 11:57 PM
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