Posted on 08/16/2009 10:56:27 AM PDT by Steelfish
Barack Obama's stepmother: I owe my life to the NHS US President Barack Obama's stepmother has said she owes her life to the NHS.
Laura Donnelly 15 Aug 2009
Kezia Obama told the News of the World:''It's very simple: I owe my life to the NHS'' [Pic in URL]
Doctors and nurses saved Kezia Obama during a visit to Britain seven years ago, when she suffered chronic kidney failure.
The 66-year-old, who now lives in Bracknell, Berkshire, said she would never have been able to afford healthcare if she had been in America at the time.
Ms Obama told the News of the World: "It's very simple: I owe my life to the NHS.
"If it wasn't for the NHS I wouldn't have been alive to see our family's greatest moment - when Barack became President and was sworn into the White House."
The intervention came after Republicans branded the NHS "evil" and "Orwellian" amid a major row over Mr Obama's plans for US healthcare reform.
Ms Obama said she fell seriously ill during a summer visit to Britain seven years ago.
"I suffered severe kidney failure and pancreatic problems so there was a very real chance I might not have made it," she said.
"I was very down at the time but luckily I was here in Britain, in what was then a foreign country to me, where the doctors, nurses and surgeons cared for me like I was their own child."
The widow, who attended President Obama's inauguration in January, turned to the NHS again five years ago when she needed two hip replacement operations.
"If I'd been asked to pay for my new hips, well, I wouldn't have been able to afford them," she said. "I would have without a doubt ended up confined to a wheelchair."
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How many Grandmothers does this guy have?
I am going to freaking vomit.
Fine. Let’s give all the people who support 0bamacare one way tickets to the UK.
But under the Obamacare health plan, Healthcare Commissar Dr. Zeke Emanual would judge her too old and not worth saving...After all, she’s over 40.
LOL! and well said!
Do these people pay for anything?
This huge extended African family are a bunch of grifters who get endless freebies. Disgusting.
But health care must be rationed somehow. The socialists insist that's true. So the question is whether it should be rationed based on political considerations (where productive members of society are used as slave labor to pay for the healthcare of others,) or based on having earned it (as evidenced by the ability to pay.)
This guy has more “family” than a Mafia don. I couldn’t care less what his step-mother has to say, unless she wants to say where he was born.
Living like a dependent child seems to be the obama family way.
Hey stupid welfare bitch, ever hear of the concept of PAYING YOUR OWN WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????????
Obviously more than Corporal Klinger, but I think it says “stepmother”. Well, BHO 1 had a few wives, so Barry may have some polygamy-based step mothers, then if Lolo Soetoro remarried, Barry may have another one there. This guy’s family tree may look more like a hydra.
She wouldn't have gotten these under ObamaCare. DemocRATS hate to watch people over 60 start to "deteriorate" as they approach the age where they'll be eligible to draw Social Security and get Medicare. Those two 'RAT failures are starting to go under because there are too many "deteriorating" human beings drawing benefits from them.
This is proof that NHS doesn’t work. It is to Americas demise that it worked for him. Now we’re stuck with him.
Then let the UK take all of our huddled masses yearning for “free” healthcare.
Oh sit down and shut up, Commie Step-Mommie!
So his Aunt lives in Boston sucking on the public teat and his stepmother lives in Britain sucking the public teat..in the meantime the rest of us slave away to pay taxes and support these parasites.
There must be a lesson there somewhere..?
The Brits get this one living off them and we get Auntie Zumie living off us and Barrack the millionaire doesn’t help any of his relatives.
“Obama’s stepmother has said she owes her life to the NHS.”
No, she owes her “life” to the people in Britain who actually work and pay taxes
and HAD she decided to come to America instead after diagnosis, she would owe her life to Americans who actually work and pay taxes that fund medicaid
bitch!
She'd gotten all of it free of charge ~ to her!
Doesn't mean a bill wouldn't have been written up for it, but it's been many years since people were denied treatment for life threatening problems simply because they didn't have "insurance".
Now, if she'd just stayed in Kenya, I'm sure they'd given her reasonably pallative care and she'd passed quietly and wouldn't be bothering us with this nonsense today.
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