It would have but, as the article said, an x-ray was the last thing they did and only after the parents got aggressive about it. There are two reasons there that this will get worse under 0bamacare. One, there will be more pressure not to use expensive diagnostic tools and two, doctors will be even less aware (a problem cited in the article) due to good doctors leaving medicine and lowered academic standards.
I’ll be frank - I didn’t click through - but x-rays are such a cheap, standard, procedure. For them to not do an xray, even in a child, seems strange to me.