Posted on 09/17/2009 2:54:23 AM PDT by Son House
President's speech writers appear to have been informed by erroneous media reports, including an article on Slate.com, about a man who was dropped from his insurance plan and later died.
President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
"They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address.
In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Raddatz's policy reinstated within three weeks of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him.
...The patient's sister, Peggy M. Raddatz, testified before the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee June 16 that her brother ultimately received treatment that "extended his life approximately three years." Nowhere in the hearing did she say her brother died because of the delay.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It's getting too obvious Obama's health care is going to be a hand-out of tax payers money for votes.
You mean BO lied?
So something that came out of Obozo’s mouth wasn’t true? I know me and at least one Representative are shocked.
You lie!
Is it just me, or does that make more sense?
Beat me to it.
He didn’t lie, he inherited the faulty anecdote from his Teleprompter.
You mean BO lied?
Again. The first one being about illegal aliens getting tax payer funded health care, which of course, not one would have admit they are here ‘illegally’ while receiving health care
everything he says is a lie, it was easy.
I am from the South and therefore unreliable. Do I remember correctly that some guy from Texas who recently was President said something about yellowcake in Iraq - the phrase ‘16 words’ rings a bell - and was pilloried for that? I believe the operative phrase was, “Bush lied, people died.” Now, the operative phrase is ‘faulty anecdote.’ My, my, how the times, they be a changin.
Looks like, huh?
He is the PREVARICATOR-IN-CHIEF.
He LIES!!! Just speakin’ truth to power.
Caligula doesn’t know the truth. It isn’t in him.
It don’t matter. Half of America is so stupid they will believe ANYTHING. Look who they voted for president.The Dems know for years that their base is ignorant , brainwashed and TV watching morons.They lie all the time and must laugh behind closed doors. The MSM is right there with them.
These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
...oh wait, wrong president, wrong speech.
Obama Bin Lyin
Obama told a “faulty”.
YOU FAULTY!
Everyone who has received medical treatment eventually died.
WHERE ARE THE LAYWERS?!!!
Obama lied, liberty died.
The shackles of socialism will not easily be cast off.
They have no defense when the medical plan is called socialism. The best they can muster up is that we already have SOME socialized medicine in America and it would be more convenient to go whole hog.
Staying healthy
Ping
BO KNEW
Obama misspeaks. Government-run healthcare critics lie. /sarcasm off/
He LIED!
Obama misspoke. We’re all gonna croak.
Unfortunately, this is like those situations where a judge instructs the jury (in this case, the audience) to disregard a falsehood made by a witness (in this case, the PREVARICATOR-IN-CHIEF).
The damage has been done.
Yes, the damage is done. I wrote Weisman, who wrote the article, and told him that he had a double standard. I don’t really know what else to do.
“He’s a Jackass”
I guess we’re being too harsh on the PREVARICATOR.
See last paragraph from the WSJ article:
“Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.), a member of the House subcommittee that investigated the Raddatz case, said there may have been insufficient vetting of Mr. Raddatz’s story by the president’s aides. But, she added, “To focus on that is kind of a ‘gotcha.’”
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He lied
Maybe Joe Wilson should have yelled
“That’s a faulty anecdote”!
That has the makings of a great protest sign, "Obama misspoke, people croaked!"
Of course, he is still responsible (well in theory) for what he gathers from the teleprompter.
A real press would have mentioned this in balance to the Wilson pillorying of the last week.
Amen to that. Southerners may “talk funny” (in Yankee minds), but at least you know that they tell the truth. Politicians excepted, of course.
Deo vindice!
Yes, it does. OTOH, "Faulty Anecdote" is (supposedly -- according to liberals) not "racist"...
Well, I mean, I’m shocked.... Truly shocked.
Now, what I’m not shocked at is that “You lie” but rather at how many times “You Lie” SHOULD have been cried.
There were, what, 22 direct lies in that short little speach - ignoring the exaggerations, of course.
His second example was a Texas woman "about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne." He said that "By the time she had her insurance reinstated, her breast cancer more than doubled in size."
President Obama's story is contradicted by the transcript of a June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The woman's testimony at the June 16 hearing confirms that her surgery was delayed several months.
However, her testimony also suggests that the dermatologist's chart may have described her skin condition as precancerous, that the insurer also took issue with an apparent failure to disclose an earlier problem with an irregular heartbeat, and that she knowingly underreported her weight on the application.
So . . . it's convenient to say it was acne and it makes the insurers sound particularly evil.
I guess it wouldn't be as compelling, would it Mr. President, if you told the truth? That she failed to disclose precancerous skin conditions (were they treated?) and an irregular heartbeat, and underreported her weight (and I'm guessing by quite a bit -- not that I have the facts, but it's clear that President Obama didn't have the facts either).
Should the insurance company have denied coverage? Perhaps it shouldn't. I don't know enough about her previous conditions.
Should the President have left out precancerous skin conditions, an irregular heartbeat and (perhaps grossly) underreported weight? Nope. That's lying by ommision -- because his anecdote wouldn't have been as compelling had he told the truth.
Obama is STILL telling this story in public. To claim that it wasn’t properly vetted is deceitful. They KNOW now and continue to spread THE BIG LIE.
A protester called Obama a LIAR when he told it again this week and the prestitutes say that the protester was “mimicking” Joe Wilson. NO, both were pointing out precise moments that OBAMA LIED.
Goebbels would be proud of the propaganda machine of the DNC.
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