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Clinic: Cancer Patient Who Wrote to Obama Will Not Lose Home, May Get Aid
fox | 3/16/10 | staff

Posted on 03/16/2010 11:12:36 AM PDT by Nachum

Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama's push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.

Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama's push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.

Though Canfield's sister Connie Anderson said her sibling is afraid she'll lose her house and Obama warned at an Ohio rally Monday that the patient is "racked with worry" about the cost of tests and treatment, she is already being screened for financial help.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; clinic; dnctalkingpoints; lyingliar; missinglink; natomacanfield; notbreakingnews; obama; obamalied; obamalies; patient; photoops; pravdamedia; prop
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1 posted on 03/16/2010 11:12:36 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Could she not qualify for Medicaid?


2 posted on 03/16/2010 11:14:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nachum

There’s another vote for Obambi

so how much TARP money is left???


3 posted on 03/16/2010 11:15:10 AM PDT by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: Mr. K

Sounds like Bummer made some phone calls and some welfare agencies got on the ball.


4 posted on 03/16/2010 11:17:11 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Nachum

Hard to tell for sure, but it sounds like the existing system was working fine for her. She wasn’t going to lose her home, but she was worried about the possibility. Worried for nothing, perhaps. Now we learn that she is not in danger of losing her home — but it’s not clear to me that anything suddenly occurred (i.e. Obama’s spotlight did not result in any sort of good Samaritan rescue). Basically, she was a prop. A misleading prop.


5 posted on 03/16/2010 11:19:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We're all heading toward red revolution - we just disagree on which type of Red we want.)
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To: Nachum

The Democrats love to tell sad stories about people without insurance (who apparently don’t know that the law forbids hospitals to deny them treatment, with or without insurance), but what the Democrats don’t say is how their reform bill would protect them. They operate on the unproven premise that they have the remedy. WHY WON’T THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT’S IN THE BILL? Is it because they know the answers aren’t there, or is it because they don’t know what’s in it at all?


6 posted on 03/16/2010 11:20:49 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Nachum
I saw her on CBS in her hospital bed. She was sitting up in bed and could talk. She wasn't having oxygen or anything. Her voice was crystal clear. Her hospital room looked nice and clean (The Cleveland Clinic). This woman knew the media was going to interview her. If someone is on their deathbed, they cannot sit up and speak. She got her 15 minutes of fame but unfortunately, she's caught up in BHO's lying ways for the rest of her life.

BHO is focusing on cancer to scare people. The tonsillitis and diabetes wasn't scary enough and he showed his ignorance discussing those and also his ignorance re: asthma.

7 posted on 03/16/2010 11:21:03 AM PDT by floriduh voter (Charlie Crist said about the summit, ..."I don't think a lot..." What else is new?)
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To: Nachum
The clinic she's in has a charity that's paying for everything, and because of that she's not going to lose anything. This woman has the best medical care in the world without her or anyone else paying a penny.

Boy, Oboma picked the wong "victim" this time! What an as$.

8 posted on 03/16/2010 11:26:58 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Nachum

The “messiah” has touched one of his own./S


9 posted on 03/16/2010 11:27:23 AM PDT by Marty62 ( Marty62)
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To: Nachum

why would she have a mortgage on a house she has lived in for 50 years?


10 posted on 03/16/2010 11:28:07 AM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Spok

Depending on who you ask, negotiations are ongoing or not ongoing. A position statement given five minutes ago may no longer be valid in this crazy Congress.

Nancy-poo is basically telling the country to trust her and Harry, they’ll “do the right thing” even if they can’t say what the right thing is. This might pass muster if you’re regulating the commerce in snapping turtles, but this is our bodies and minds she’s talking about. Get it wrong and you hurt us from the word go. Sorry, after the bounteous load of BS you’ve heaped on us, we don’t even trust them to stick a tongue depressor in our mouth and look at our throat. They might not remember to use a new one.


11 posted on 03/16/2010 11:31:38 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Nachum

This is not my field of expertise...not by a long shot. So maybe I am missing something obvious, but here is a portion of her letter to 0bama, with facts I find incomprehensible:

“Last year (2009) my insurance premium was increased over 25% even though I increased my deductible and out of pocket to the highest limits available. I paid out over $6075.24 in premiums, $2415.26 for medical care, $225 in co-pays and $1500 for prescriptions. I never reached my deductible of $2500 so the insurance company only paid out a total $935.32 to my providers.

I must repeat, in 2009 my insurance company received $6075.24 in premiums and paid out only $935.32!”

Would it not be more economical to have put that $6075.24 into some other account, where it would grow or be available for medical expenses? Would the expenses not have been even less if she’d been completely self-pay? (Every nurse I’ve ever discussed it with, said there’s a huge discount for cash on the barrelhead.)


12 posted on 03/16/2010 11:31:40 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: concerned about politics

Most people will see it as Bummer having shaken things loose. The hospital isn’t going to crow about its program for understandable reasons.


13 posted on 03/16/2010 11:32:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Spok

load of BS you’ve heaped on us => load of BS they’ve heaped on us


14 posted on 03/16/2010 11:33:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Hoodat

Maybe she took out a Second Mortgage, or maybe she’s in danger of losing her house for non payment of Property Taxes?


15 posted on 03/16/2010 11:35:03 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Hoodat

Maybe she took out a Second Mortgage, or maybe she’s in danger of losing her house for non payment of Property Taxes?


16 posted on 03/16/2010 11:35:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Nachum

Hell, that’s not much to pay for one vote.


17 posted on 03/16/2010 11:35:59 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
(Every nurse I’ve ever discussed it with, said there’s a huge discount for cash on the barrelhead.)

Please pardon me if this is tangential (I'm taking the above as your comment, not the woman's comment) but if you have no applicable insurance and go in to a doctor's office and have to pay retail, how do you go about getting this "cash" discount when the bookkeeper isn't there and they just send you a bill? I've seen insurance benefit statements and they have tremendous leverage upon providers, sometimes getting them to settle for maybe a third of their retail prices.

18 posted on 03/16/2010 11:38:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: massgopguy

Yeah, I suspect a home equity line of credit, being used to help pay the medical bills that her enrolled program doesn’t pay.


19 posted on 03/16/2010 11:39:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Would it not be more economical to have put that $6075.24 into some other account, where it would grow or be available for medical expenses?

We've paid thousands every month (from the first day we started working years ago) for health insurace and only used it for child birth. One of my kids came home with strep throat once, but we have a $200 deductable, so we paid cash for that anyway.
Had we banked our money, we'd be pretty rich right now.

Buy major medical and bank the rest. Most of the time you'll have to pay for other services with cash anyway. We learned that lesson the expensive way.

20 posted on 03/16/2010 11:41:29 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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