Death By Medicaid

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Deamonte Driver, a teenager living with his single mom on welfare in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Driver died at the age of 16 from an ailment that most people do not have to worry about: a toothache.

The real tragedy in Driver’s story is that he died even though he had health insurance. He had Medicaid, yet even with this government-provided insurance, Driver’s mother could not find a doctor quickly enough to prevent the infection in his tooth from spreading to his brain.

Death by government.