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verbalresistance: stfuconservatives: thedailywhat: This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old unemployed father of one from Cincinnati, passed away last week from an easily treatable tooth infection because he didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford a simple tooth extraction. Willis began experiencing a wisdom tooth ache two weeks ago, and was told by dentists he would need to have it pulled. He didn’t have insurance to cover the procedure and couldn’t pay for it out of pocket, so he decided to skip treatment altogether. After his face began to swell, Willis went to the emergency room, where he was prescribed antibiotics, which, again, he couldn’t afford. He decided to stick with pain medicine. The infection eventually spread to his brain causing it to swell. He died last Tuesday. American Academy of Family Physicians president-elect Dr. Glenn Stream says that, even if Willis had access to a free dental clinic, “the wait is often months…and this young man died within two weeks of his problem.” “[Willis] might as well have been living in 1927,” Dr. Jim Jirjis, director of general internal medicine at Vanderbilt University, told ABC News. “All of the advances we’ve made in medicine today and are proud of, for people who don’t have coverage, you might as well never have developed those.” [abcnews.] I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you don’t believe that health care is a right then you believe that poor people, like this young man, deserve to die. -Joe It’s tragic stories like this, that make me more and more grateful that we have the NHS, and that notions of universal access to healthcare remain untainted across Europe, and most of the developed world outside the US. Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege. It’s tragic that innocent people, such as this poor soul, have to suffer the ultimate penalty, due to massive public misinformation campaigns by the right (even drawing on some kind of residual ‘red scare’) at the behest of large insurance companies that try to maintain the status quo, of healthcare for profit - to much success as well, as Obama’s plan was successively watered down; the American people are held hostage, against their best interests, in the name of corporate gain. It’s really quite sad, but unfortunately as long as some of the public remain ignorant and misinformed about the true nature and success of public healthcare, not realising it’s dire necessity, and as long as the insurance companies and their right wing cronies feed this misinformation - playing on peoples doubts as they resist further reform - I feel that unfortunately little will change… though I hope I’m wrong. Its a shame how the public health care system has failed so many people. Barrack Obama needs to pull his fucking head in ! It costs $1,000,000 a year to pay for just one solider to stay in Afghanistan, bear in mind, when I say for just one solider, I mean per soldier. Bring these soldiers home to their families and invest in better healthcare. Get your shit together Obama, they voted you in for a reason.

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stfuconservatives: thedailywhat:

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old unemployed father of one from Cincinnati, passed away last week from an easily treatable tooth infection because he didn’t have health insurance and couldn’t afford a simple tooth extraction.

Willis began experiencing a wisdom tooth ache two weeks ago, and was told by dentists he would need to have it pulled. He didn’t have insurance to cover the procedure and couldn’t pay for it out of pocket, so he decided to skip treatment altogether.

After his face began to swell, Willis went to the emergency room, where he was prescribed antibiotics, which, again, he couldn’t afford. He decided to stick with pain medicine. The infection eventually spread to his brain causing it to swell.

He died last Tuesday.

American Academy of Family Physicians president-elect Dr. Glenn Stream says that, even if Willis had access to a free dental clinic, “the wait is often months…and this young man died within two weeks of his problem.”

“[Willis] might as well have been living in 1927,” Dr. Jim Jirjis, director of general internal medicine at Vanderbilt University, told ABC News. “All of the advances we’ve made in medicine today and are proud of, for people who don’t have coverage, you might as well never have developed those.”

[abcnews.]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you don’t believe that health care is a right then you believe that poor people, like this young man, deserve to die.

-Joe

It’s tragic stories like this, that make me more and more grateful that we have the NHS, and that notions of universal access to healthcare remain untainted across Europe, and most of the developed world outside the US. Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege.

It’s tragic that innocent people, such as this poor soul, have to suffer the ultimate penalty, due to massive public misinformation campaigns by the right (even drawing on some kind of residual ‘red scare’) at the behest of large insurance companies that try to maintain the status quo, of healthcare for profit - to much success as well, as Obama’s plan was successively watered down; the American people are held hostage, against their best interests, in the name of corporate gain.

It’s really quite sad, but unfortunately as long as some of the public remain ignorant and misinformed about the true nature and success of public healthcare, not realising it’s dire necessity, and as long as the insurance companies and their right wing cronies feed this misinformation - playing on peoples doubts as they resist further reform - I feel that unfortunately little will change… though I hope I’m wrong.

Its a shame how the public health care system has failed so many people. Barrack Obama needs to pull his fucking head in ! It costs $1,000,000 a year to pay for just one solider to stay in Afghanistan, bear in mind, when I say for just one solider, I mean per soldier. Bring these soldiers home to their families and invest in better healthcare. Get your shit together Obama, they voted you in for a reason.

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