Posted on 04/06/2008 8:35:11 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
Hillary Clinton’s campaign says the candidate will stop telling the story of an uninsured pregnant woman who lost the baby and died after being denied medical care, following a hospital raising questions over its accuracy.
Clinton has frequently told the emotional story of the woman from rural Ohio since late February. In the speech, Clinton said the woman made minimum wage working at a local pizza restaurant, without insurance, when she became pregnant. Clinton said the woman ran into trouble, went to a hospital in a nearby county but was denied treatment because she couldn’t afford a $100 payment. In the speech, Clinton said the woman later was taken to the hospital by ambulance and lost the baby. The young woman was then taken by helicopter to a Columbus hospital where she died of complications.
As recently as Friday night in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Clinton said, “As I was listening to this story being told, I was just aching inside. It is so wrong, in this good, great and rich country, that a young woman and her baby would die because she didn’t have health insurance or a hundred dollars to get examined.”
But an Athens, Ohio hospital is questioning the accuracy of the story. While Clinton never named the hospital in her speech, the woman she was referring to was treated at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens. The hospital said the woman did indeed have insurance, and at least at their hospital was never turned away.
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Maybe she needs more sleep, those 3 am wake-up calls are wreaking havoc with her memory.
The misstatement was probably a result of a head wound from that Tuzla sniper.
...while sniper bullets were whizzing by her ear!!
Ah, the old “Fake, but accurate” defense...
So for lack of $100 she couldn't get care but she could somehow get an ambulance and a helicopter to transport her.
Right.
Pathological liar.
Who's writing her stuff? Dan Rather and Mary Mapes?
This kind of fake sob story is not just typical of Clinton, it is typical of all leftists. There is a saying, “Hard cases make bad law.” Our system has historically worked pretty well, so if the left can’t find a real “hard case” to justify their bad law, they invent them.
The “sob stories” told the court in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton are prime examples. Abortion rights people have consistently invented sob stories in abortion cases. It is a scandal. Rigoberto Menchu is another.
This fake hospital story is just the latest example.
I hope she keeps on talking. She’s nuking herself without any help from us.
However, this does NOT mean we can let our guard down. They are going to do anything to win -and this means they will again cheat with votes.
With Hillary’s ability to remember things that never happened and Obama’s ability to “disremember” things that did happen, we have the perfect team to lead the moonbats off into Candy Land, where everything they bake will be satisfying and delicious—talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat the dishes—la, la, la, la.
Great catch!
Hillary is finally being revealed by the media as the calculating phony we always knew her to be.
Life is good.
It has to be driving her crazy to see the same MSM that used to cover for her and Bubba’s scandals turn on them
She may go over the edge —she ain’t used to this kind of treatment
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
I am soooo enjoying this.
Hillary is the smartest woman on earth.
I’m sorry I misspoke there due to the stress of being pinned down by sniper fire. Hillary is an toidi, (idiot), in meltdown mode as well.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a film clip of the Skank dressed in a pink suit....The clip was made back when her royal highness was the Bubba’s first lady......She was giving NAFTA a thumbs up and lauding her rotten husband’s success in signing the bill....
What the F%@!!!! gives here? How come more media networks don’t show this over and over?? The Obama camp should be playing the film clip every day!!!!
Let’s face it, what those two did and how they represented our country while they were in office was abominable...
People must be really stupid wh vote for them..
Democray is only as good as the people in it, and if the country chooses them ..we are not only stupid but doomed!
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