LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less class, style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Odd, in california and arizona illegals give birth to 100’s of thousands of babies every year all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.
My guess is the woman had severe preeclampsia/HELLP syndrome with all sorts of nasty ensuing complications and organ failure. Small hospitals do not have the facilities to care for someone in this critical condition.
Preeclampsia can go very bad very fast and a good doctor will recognize it and transfer the patient to the appropriate facility. You need the equimpment and the ICU nurses, not just doctors. You cannot establish a tertiary care center in every small city.
Top bumper sticker of the day!
Using hearsay, to push multi-trillion national policies.
“Sloppy”
Except that Gore’s not playing dumb
If (god forbid...) Bill or Hillary ever took a sniper shot to the head, I’m more or less convinced their heads would just grow back.
That prophecy, you know?
I thought she said it wasn’t her fault—she was just repeating a story someone told her(ie heresay). Yep, just the kind of person we want heading up the Presidency.
Her MLK-Jr story was pretty pathetic, too. Her head hanging down, shaking her head sadly... I didn’t realize until just this year how emo, melodramatic, and histrionic Hillary was.
Most of us know that telling a story that cannot, or was not, confirmed is akin to a lie. The bigger question is why does Hillary lie? I believe she does it because it works in her favor. A person who is considering voting for a person with a socialist agenda is not going to be all that concerned about truth.
Al Gore expressed it best in an interview when he said it is okay to lie to get people’s attention. Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton are correct; it works well on simple minded people.
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