[MortMan]

One thing I’m convinced of, is that Zero’s thoughts on health care are due to his mother’s death at a relatvely young age. He is angry that his mom died so young with so many medical bills. He is behaving as an angry and vengeful human being. But it’s important to remember that his mother would have NOT been covered by Medicare when she was dying....SHE WAS NOT A U.S. Citizen. By law, she was a foreigner!

I have not heard, read, or seen any evidence that Obama's mother was not a U.S. citizen. His father, of course, was a Kenyan. But his mother was a U.S. citizen, to my knowledge.

Please provide an authoritative link for evidence of this assertion.

Oh, and welcome to Free Republic.

[DrC]

“I have not heard, read, or seen any evidence that Obama’s mother was not a U.S. citizen.”

I haven’t done the calculations. I too have seen no evidence she wasn’t born a citizen, but she did spend an inordinate amount of her working life outside of the US. To qualify for SS and Medicare, you have to have a minimum number of quarters of earnings.

So despite being a citizen, it’s possible she would have been technically ineligible for Medicare. Also, Medicare only available to those 65+ (which she wasn’t, to my knowledge) or permanently disabled (which possibly she was, but I don’t know enough about her illness/end of life to state this with certainty: there’s a minimum 4 months to qualify for SS Disability, so until she qualified for that, Medicare would not have been in the picture etc.).