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Posted on 09/17/2009 11:38:05 AM PDT by erman
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In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission........got Mr. Raddatz's policy reinstated within three weeks of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Mr. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.
Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct. Mr. Raddatz was dropped from his insurance plan weeks before a scheduled stem-cell transplant.....
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. Ms. Raddatz didn't return calls seeking comment...
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They are such LIA...... er.... UN-TRUTH TELLERS!!!...
heck they should just start all of his speeches with..."Once upon a time.... (enter sob story).. and that's why we want to control every aspect of your life", Amen"...
Better to just say he is full of SH!t - but maybe that is being too racist.
Huh?
And so are the rich doctors.
And the medical center.
And Joe Wilson.
So Congress reprimands Joe Wilson for tarnishing the “decorum” of the Congress by calling the President a liar yet nothing is said about a President that comes in and tarnishes it by actually LYING!
Perhaps they should have the disclaimer that preceeds and trails his speeches that says:
Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental....
The man is pathological.
Lies just roll out of his mouth.
Looks like a hard left turn!!
Clearly the author of this article is racist.
“...the president got the essence of the story correct.”
Shouldn’t they say the same thing about Bush and the weapons of mass distruction.
“Avenge me boy.”
Liberalism (progressivism, or whatever you want to call it) would not exist without half-truths and deceptions.
... yet, nobody could find any evidence that Edwards ever met any little dying boy with cancer.
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