Posted on 11/06/2013 4:17:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that true horror stories of Obamacare's wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn't like "anecdotes." Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney huffed that stage-four gallbladder cancer survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby's personal account in The Wall Street Journal of seeing her health insurance plan canceled and her access to doctors cut off was "sensational." Not a shred of compassion for her predicament. No sorrow for her loss. Must. Attack. Messenger.
There are millions out there like Sundby who are using Facebook, Twitter, Twitchy.com and a new website called MyCancellation.com to share their plights. White House flacks and hacks are working overtime to "debunk" their experiences, bash insurance companies and deride individual market consumers losing their plans as stupid dupes whose stories don't add up.
Here's the thing. This Alinsky-steeped administration has relied on an endless stream of sensationalized, phony personal dramas to sell Obamacare. Last month, Organizing for Action (previously Obama for America) promoted the "success story" of Chad Henderson, a supposedly random young person who miraculously enrolled in Obamacare while everyone else in America experienced major tech meltdowns and sticker shock.
Turned out Lying Chad was actually an OFA volunteer who hadn't really enrolled in Obamacare yet because he was "joking." No matter. Yesterday, Obama appeared before OFA to solicit even more stories from the group to help propagandize Obamacare. A refresher course on the White House Fable Factory's greatest hits:
--Stanley Ann Dunham. Obama cited his mom's deathbed fight with her insurer several times over the years to support the Obamacare ban on pre-existing condition exclusions by insurers. During a 2008 debate, he shared her plight: "For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that." But New York Times reporter Janny Scott discovered that Dunham's health insurer had in fact reimbursed her medical expenses with nary an objection. The actual coverage dispute centered on a separate disability insurance policy.
--Otto Raddatz. In 2009, Obama publicized the plight of this Illinois cancer patient, who supposedly died after he was dropped from his Fortis/Assurant Health insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about. The truth? He got the treatment he needed in 2005 and lived for nearly four more years.
--Robin Beaton. Also in 2009, Obama claimed Beaton, a breast cancer patient, lost her insurance after "she forgot to declare a case of acne." In fact, she failed to disclose a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately, but had her insurance restored anyway after intense public lobbying.
--John Brodniak. A 23-year-old unemployed Oregon sawmill worker, Brodniak's health woes were spotlighted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as a textbook argument for Obamacare. Brodniak reportedly was diagnosed with cavernous hemangioma, a neurological condition, and was allegedly turned away by emergency room doctors. Kristof called the case "monstrous" and decried opponents of the Democrats' health care proposals as heartless murderers. The truth? Brodniak not only had coverage through Oregon's Medicaid program, but was also a neurology patient at the prestigious Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a safety-net institution that accepts all Medicaid patients). Kristof never retracted the legend.
--Marcelas Owens. An 11-year-old boy from Seattle, Owens took a coveted spot next to the president in March 2010 when Obamacare was signed into law. Marcelas' 27-year-old mother, Tiffany Owens, died of pulmonary hypertension. The family said the single mother of three lost her job as a fast-food manager and lost her insurance. She died in 2007 after receiving emergency care and treatment throughout her illness. Progressive groups (for whom Marcelas' relatives worked) dubbed Marcelas an "insurance abuse survivor." But there wasn't a shred of evidence that any insurer had "abused" the boy or his mom. Further, Washington State already offered a plethora of existing government assistance programs to laid-off and unemployed workers like Marcelas' mom. The family and its public relations agents never explained why she didn't enroll.
--Natoma Canfield. The White House made the Ohio cancer patient a poster child for Obamacare in 2010 after she wrote a letter complaining about skyrocketing premiums and the prospect of losing her home. After Obama gave Canfield a shout-out at a health care rally in Strongsville, Ohio, and promised to control costs, officials at the renowned Cleveland Clinic, which is treating her, made clear that they would "not put a lien on her home" and that she was eligible for a wide variety of state aid and private charity care.
Phony manufactured tales built Obamacare. Real stories of Obamacare wreckage will bring it down.
Stupid enough to elect him twice. Next question?
Wasn’t all this stuff supposed to go into the memory hole?
“(How Stupid Does He Think We Are?)”
Well, the country elected Blago in Virginia, passed sodomite marriage in Illinois, elected a communist mayor in New York, a RINO scumbag in Alabama, and rejected the obvious choice of secession in Colorado.
I assume very.
In 5 short years we’ve gone from compationate carding government to a Marxist kill them all snake oil bait and switch lying butt holes.
Hey, hey, what do you say,
How many lies you tell today?
Hey, hey, what do you say,
How many lies you tell today?
Hey, hey, what do you say,
How many lies you tell today?
Hey, hey, what do you say,
How many lies you tell today?
'When I use a word,' Humpty O'Bumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
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MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, ran the clip of David "I'm Harmless" Axlerod saying that “only 5% will lose their insurance. ”
As if 14 million cancelled, many suffering from chronic diseases, were "expendable" O/Care nuisances.
Axelrod sounded very much like a Nazi, defending Hitler, b/c he had “only killed 6 million Jews,” a very small percentage.
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This Chicago criminal Axelrod is now a CBS advisor and runs his own political science school at the U of Chicago---the Chicago jerkman fixed US elections to get Obama into the WH--and now he's considered a political expert. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
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YOO HOO NANCY--The dirty secrets that Obama and the Democrats have tried to keep from Americans since they first introduced the Obamacare legislation are now out in the open. It’s why they didn’t want anyone to read it. It’s why they didn’t want anyone to debate it. It’s why they shouted down Republicans.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are getting cancellation letters b/c their h/care policies do not live up to sap-happy Obama's utopian Marxist dream. Yet, they heard Obama’s endlessly repeated assurances: “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan”...repeated 29 times at last count.
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Americans now realize they've been screwed-over by (1) Obamacare, (2) Democrats, AND, (3) Obama himself.
How quick Dems are to throw out their "tolerance and compassion act" if it doesn't comport w/ their agenda ..... this time, Obama’s not able to b/s his way out of his Marxist malfeasance..... no amount of confident, articulate speechifying will change the mounting cancellation notices, doubled and tripled premiums....and the monumental failure of the failed billion dollar failed web site
No they won't. For one thing, people will simply refuse to believe their lying eyes. I have no idea why, but they desire above all else to believe Obama, even when he is shown time and again to be a liar.
Also, Obama is already dealing with this latest conflict with reality, not by changing the law, but by ordering the health insurance companies to extend the existing policies, even though the law itself forbade this because those policies didn't comply with the new coverage demands (maternity coverage for 80 year olds, for example). I just read this little tidbit in the WSJ this morning.
So once again, we see the hand of executive force, "ordering" these private companies to violate a law of Obama's own creation in order to protect him politically.
Ironically, the liar slit his own throat w/ the "existing condition" thingy.......the young healthies he needs to keep the SS O/Titanic afloat figure they don't need insurance. But they will sign on w/ an "existing condition" if they get injured falling down the stairs.
Many stupidly voted for Obama in 2008.
Only the stupid voted for him 2012.
…and he hasn’t been disappointed yet.
There are some very stupid people in this country and, unfortunately, they have the votes necessary to elect these people into office. This nation is facing some very dark times ahead, indeed. New York City has elected a leftists for Mayor now and McAuliffe beats Cuccinelli in Virginia....and apparently this was largely due to women voters who are somehow convinced of the Republicans have declared a ‘War on Women”.
Dark Times Indeed ...
First of all who is Blago, second if you are not a resident in these states you can not vote in them.
See my tagline
Obamacare is a Hate Crime against America and is working out exactly as the Democrats planned. Democrats are helping Obama destroy the country he despises.
Blago... Blagojevich. They elected a crook.
I take the point, but this was across several states. A liberal wave
They don’t really care, because the media don’t hold him accountable. I still remember the incident in which Obama was bowing to foreign leaders and White House told us not to believe our lying eyes, Obama was not bowing
Will you help or will you just sit home because you think the Republicans should be punished?
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