Posted on 07/22/2011 6:28:19 AM PDT by bigbob
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother's struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
"I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn't thinking about how to get well, she wasn't thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality. She was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence," Obama said in September 2007.
"She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn't have to reimburse her for her medical bills," Obama added in January 2008.
"The insurance companies were saying, 'Maybe there's a pre-existing condition and we don't have to pay your medical bills,'" Obama said in a debate with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain in October 2008.
It was a simple and powerful story, one Obama would tell many more times as president during the national healthcare debate. But now we're learning the real story of Ann Dunham's health coverage is not quite what her son made it out to be.
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Just another one of his made-up stories. There is no shortage of them.
BTW, as an attorney, shouldnt he know that “the family” (meaning surviving children) isn’t responsible for the medical bills of their parents? A husband could be responsible for the costs of her care but IIRC she did not have one at the time.
Oh my! He lied?
It drove the media so nuts that they couldn’t catch Bush in a lie, that they had to manufacture lies with photo copiers and forgeries.
Obama? It’s only lies, who has been harmed?
The Kenyan is a filthy Liar,But we knew that!
Obama can’t get the facts straight about where he was born so this is just another manipulation of the facts. If our health care system is so bad how come Obama’s Aunt who is in the US illegally got a free hip replacement on the tax payer’s dime?
He is a liar. He lies all the time and it is an intrinsic part of his “character” (lack of).
Barry was around mid 30’s when Commie Mommy was ill. His little sis was late 20’s or early 30’s.
Commie Mommy was not supporting dependent children, so her worries that a bankruptcy harming her family is Disney's to say the least.
The guy tells a lie, then always embellishes too much...the sign of a pathological liar.
He makes me sick and disgusted by the American voters that voted this fraud into the presidency.
If these same fools vote him in again in 2012....I want nothing to do with the country as it is. I want my state, Arizona, to break off and secede. And, no, I'm not kidding.
It will not be America anymore if he gets another 4 years.
He’s a lawyer FGS! He has to know that the adult children would not be liable for their mother’s medical bills. Therefore the claimed fear of BK is more BS.
He does this all the time ... gets away with it thanks to our commie media.
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