Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., sits between Bryan Holman, left, and his son Jordan, 12, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in Bryan's Pomeroy, Ohio, home.
There is a little more information at the end of the story, including a name.
Clinton was told the story by Bryan Holman, the Meigs County deputy sheriff, who said the deceased woman was Trina Bachtel, whom campaign officials had been unable to identify.
Bachtel, Holman said, had been turned away from the hospital not only for lack of $100 but also because she had unpaid bills -- a detail that Clinton has not mentioned. Public records show that Bachtel of Pomeroy, Ohio, died on Aug. 15, 2007, at age 35. She previously had thousands of dollars in hospital debt, but it was paid off by 2005.
But the story still doesn't make sense. Even with a record of unpaid/slow paid bills, she was eligible for Medicaid.
I should have made it clear that the woman is named in the Washington Post story, not the CNN transcript.
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., sits between Bryan Holman, left, and his son Jordan, 12, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, in Bryan's Pomeroy, Ohio, home.