Posted on 09/17/2009 11:09:37 AM PDT by kcvl
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In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission.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. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.
Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct. Raddatz was dropped from his insurance plan weeks before a scheduled stem-cell transplant.
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Obama is an IDIOT and a LIAR.
I will NOT apologize for speaking the TRUTH.
Barry’s speech writer is a racist.
He’s making Barry look like a liar.
stop trying to cloud the issues with facts.
I found the other anecdote he told—about the woman whose coverage was terminated for failure to report acne—impossible to believe. Would like to see the documentation.
TOTUS apparently takes liberties with the truth. Someone should warn POTUS.
THE TELEPROMPTER LIED!
Fake, but accurate. (According to CBS.)
0bama lies!
What’s up with Joe’s mug?
I think you’re right.
BUT. Also keep in mind that with hundreds of millions of people getting health care, it would be extraordinary if two mistakes weren’t made, or two injustices done.
Does anyone really believe that the GOVERNMENT would make fewer mistakes and commit fewer injustices?
Anybody?
They will predictably suck up trillions of dollars of pork out of this deal, and screw ordinary people the way the always do.
But will millions of cases to paw through, Obama gets at least one out of two wrong? That suggests what the government failure rate would be. Not 2-3%, but 50%.
I don't think President Obama would like for you to see the documentation on that one, because his story is contradicted by the same June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
President Obama said the Texas woman was "about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne." He said that "By the time she had her insurance reinstated, her breast cancer more than doubled in size."
According to her testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the dermatologist's chart may have described her skin condition as precancerous, that the insurer also took issue with an apparent failure to disclose an earlier problem with an irregular heartbeat, and that she knowingly underreported her weight on the application.
So . . . it's convenient to say it was acne and it makes the insurers sound particularly evil.
I guess it wouldn't be as compelling, would it Mr. President, if you told the truth? That she failed to disclose precancerous skin conditions (were they treated?) and an irregular heartbeat, and underreported her weight (and I'm guessing by quite a bit -- not that I have the facts, but it's clear that President Obama didn't have the facts either).
Should the insurance company have denied coverage? Perhaps it shouldn't. I don't know enough about her previous conditions.
Should the President have left out precancerous skin conditions, an irregular heartbeat and (perhaps grossly) underreported weight? Nope. That's lying by ommision -- because his anecdote wouldn't have been as compelling had he told the truth.
It wasn’t a lie. Just an inconvenient untruth.
Not me. Insurance companies have to be concerned about their reputation, since they have competition.
Does the federal gummint operate like it has to worry about competition?
You are absolutely right. No one screws up more.
Translation: He lied his butt off.
Awkward phrasing. Rep. Joe Wilson would not have shouted, "You faulty anecdoter!"
So his big showcase example is proven false?
well well well
Shocked I am, shocked.
Faulty anecdote...or the somewhat more COMMON term—a FRIGGIN’ LIE!
Facts are irrelevent. All that matters is the seriousness of the charge!
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