Posted on 09/17/2009 2:54:23 AM PDT by Son House
President's speech writers appear to have been informed by erroneous media reports, including an article on Slate.com, about a man who was dropped from his insurance plan and later died.
President Barack Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
"They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address.
In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Raddatz's policy reinstated within three weeks of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him.
...The patient's sister, Peggy M. Raddatz, testified before the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee June 16 that her brother ultimately received treatment that "extended his life approximately three years." Nowhere in the hearing did she say her brother died because of the delay.
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It's getting too obvious Obama's health care is going to be a hand-out of tax payers money for votes.
You mean BO lied?
So something that came out of Obozo’s mouth wasn’t true? I know me and at least one Representative are shocked.
You lie!
Is it just me, or does that make more sense?
Beat me to it.
He didn’t lie, he inherited the faulty anecdote from his Teleprompter.
You mean BO lied?
Again. The first one being about illegal aliens getting tax payer funded health care, which of course, not one would have admit they are here ‘illegally’ while receiving health care
everything he says is a lie, it was easy.
I am from the South and therefore unreliable. Do I remember correctly that some guy from Texas who recently was President said something about yellowcake in Iraq - the phrase ‘16 words’ rings a bell - and was pilloried for that? I believe the operative phrase was, “Bush lied, people died.” Now, the operative phrase is ‘faulty anecdote.’ My, my, how the times, they be a changin.
Looks like, huh?
He is the PREVARICATOR-IN-CHIEF.
He LIES!!! Just speakin’ truth to power.
Caligula doesn’t know the truth. It isn’t in him.
It don’t matter. Half of America is so stupid they will believe ANYTHING. Look who they voted for president.The Dems know for years that their base is ignorant , brainwashed and TV watching morons.They lie all the time and must laugh behind closed doors. The MSM is right there with them.
These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
...oh wait, wrong president, wrong speech.
Obama Bin Lyin
Obama told a “faulty”.
YOU FAULTY!
Everyone who has received medical treatment eventually died.
WHERE ARE THE LAYWERS?!!!
Obama lied, liberty died.
The shackles of socialism will not easily be cast off.
They have no defense when the medical plan is called socialism. The best they can muster up is that we already have SOME socialized medicine in America and it would be more convenient to go whole hog.
Staying healthy
Ping
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