His mother didn't have health insurance. She didn't have Medicaid, or $80 for the dentist. And so the 
bacteria causing 12-year-old Deamonte Driver's toothache spread to his brain. Two operations and six weeks later, he was dead.
It's little surprise that health care is the top domestic concern heading into next year's presidential elections, or that some states are already experimenting with their own universal health care programs.
For Want of a Dentist [Washington Post]
