Posted on 09/17/2009 12:10:03 PM PDT by bestintxas
He stood in the well of the House a week ago, looked right into the camera at the American people and lied.
No, not that lie. Not the laughable notion that illegals will be unable to buy into Obamacare. This is a lie where he indicted the entire US healthcare system by claiming someone died because private insurance companies are too greedy.
Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal has uncovered the real story of what happened to the man Obama claimed was dropped by his insurance company during chemo treatment because of an unreported gallstone:
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In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission.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 Mr. Raddatz's policy reinstated within three weeks of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Mr. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.
Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct. Mr. Raddatz was dropped from his insurance plan weeks before a scheduled stem-cell transplant.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sometimes - looks like it’s been published in the WSJ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342177/posts
YOU LIE!
This guy is making Clinton look like a choir boy!
This guy is making Clinton look like a choir boy!
There is a difference between a minor league “good ol boy” thug (no matter how many fallen women or questionable deaths he leaves behind), and this socialist dictator wannabe..he may not be the antichrist, but he’s paving the way...
Since when do liberals care about the truth when they can spin a great story?
The only thing certain about Bobo, he is a natural born sneak, cheat and liar!
It was investigated and proven that the story was a lie. Why would Obambi use the same story again?
Barack Obama = Tommy Flanagan(Flu-nay-gun)
because it does not make any difference to the liberal left. It is the meaning and intent that is important. He can lie all he wants if it is for the “good”, as defined by the liberal left.
O lies and the Elderly, Women, Children and the infirm Die.
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