… and hard facts those on the Left don’t like to face.

HealthFam’s is a state run welfare dental insurance plan. Its members consist almost exclusively of generational welfare families.

When the parents of these members call, they typically cannot speak English and if they do speak English, it is either with trailer park trash verbosity (or lack thereof) or mush mouthed Ebonics.

Our Spanish speaking representatives (all of which are Mexican) often tell me that the Spanish speaking callers frequently don’t know how to spell their children’s names or they don’t know their own children’s birthday(s). This is an example of welfare money grubbing baby factories. There is no other explanation. Not when it’s on this size and scope.

For Want of a Dentist

Pr. George's Boy Dies After Bacteria From Tooth Spread to Brain

By Mary Otto

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, February 28, 2007; Page B01

Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.

A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.

If his mother had been insured.

If his family had not lost its Medicaid.

If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.

If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.

By the time Deamonte's own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the Prince George's County boy died.

Deamonte's death and the ultimate cost of his care, which could total more than $250,000, underscore an often-overlooked concern in the debate over universal health coverage: dental care.

I did a quick run of claims for HealthFam members and came up with some… less than surprising results.

Excuses are constantly made for individuals on welfare programs. According to the Left around the world these are the downtrodden of our populace. They are the poor and disenfranchised kept down by “The Man.” Kept down by corporate America and any other reason the socialist Left can conjure. They blame anything and everything while ignoring personal responsibility.

I ran a quick Excel spreadsheet comparing the claims we have on file with group members and HealthFam members. Group members are children whose parents are employed and get their dental insurance through their employer. For the HealthFam children there are far more claims for root canals, fillings, crowns and other work that are caused by a lack of dental hygiene/care associated with the welfare members’ children than the group members.

The same sense of responsibility that urges successful people to graduate high school, hold a steady job (or several) to pay their way through college, graduate from college and be successful is the same sense of responsibility required to ensure your child upkeeps proper hygiene, dental or otherwise.

I know many of you bleeding hearts out there will say that toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss are oh so expensive but, can’t some of these poor downtrodden give up a little something for a toothbrush for their children? Or maybe it’s the governments or public schools responsibility to ensure our nations children are practicing proper oral hygiene?

I believe that the neglect for their children by not ensuring proper hygiene should be reported by the dental offices to the state for criminal child neglect.

“If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.”

I believe that with sufficient investigation Deamonte Driver’s mother could be charged with the death of her child due to criminal child neglect. Another example of the lack of personal responsibility on behalf of the welfare families.

The hard questions:

Why, when you drive through a welfare state trailer park is there trash everywhere? Why does the norm consist of unkempt lawns and dirty kids running around? Why is there white trash sitting on the front porch swatting flies? Why do most meth heads live in dirty trailer parks? Why are the crime rates higher? Why are most of the stores in areas such as that dirty and run down? Why do most people on welfare live in those sorts of areas? Why, are there ghettos in the city in which, a law enforcement officer won’t drive at night because they literally fear for their lives due to sniper fire? Why are drugs and prostitution rampant in those sorts of areas? Why is their graffiti everywhere? Why are the crime rates higher? Why do I see people littering on the side of the road in those areas? Why when the projects went up behind my apartments are there police helicopters hovering overhead at least once a month or so? Why do I always hear gansta rap bass coming from the vehicles in that apartment area? Why when I take a week off of work I look back there and see unemployed men standing around in the parking lot drinking their forties and cussing loudly? What causes these to be “bad” sections of town?

Why, when you drive through a middle-upper class neighborhood or apartment complex do you see the home owners out in their yards mowing and tending their gardens? Why is there little or no trash and graffiti? Why don’t you frequently hear gansta rap bass and see police helicopters circling overhead?

Why aren’t their kids dead due to criminal neglect the lack of simple dental hygiene?

Sometimes you may see a helicopter overhead a middle-upper class neighborhood or apartment complex but, it is because the police are chasing a deadbeat burglar or car rim thief who happens to have come from the ghetto or the trailer park down the road.

In the words of a liberal journalist:

“Deamonte's death and the ultimate cost of his care, which could total more than $250,000, underscore an often-overlooked concern in the debate over universal health coverage: dental care.”

In the words of a critical thinking American:

Deamonte's death and the ultimate cost of his care, which could total more than $250,000 could have all been avoided if his mother had ensured he practiced proper dental hygiene. Those who would overlook this are enablers and are just as guilty.