Posted on 10/08/2007 1:49:08 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Al Gore said, "It brings tears to your eyes. Here's this adorable, elderly woman out in Iowa who's so sick and so poor, that in order to pay for medicines she needs to stay alive, she has to scavenge in a local dump yard for cast-off tin cans."
"She gets a small pension," he said. "But in order to pay for her prescription drug benefits she has to go out seven days a week, several hours a day, picking up cans."
It turns out, as the statement was rectified, Mrs. Skinner goes out zero days a week, for zero hours a day, and that she was only speaking "in the name of" people she assumes must do this.
I’m confused on that part as well. Maybe they didn’t have auto insurance either.
Maybe he's reading before posting. You should try it.
Can someone provide me with details on the auto accident.
This is all I have: “The 12-year-old Baltimore boy, whose family relied on the government-funded insurance program after he and his sister were severely injured in a 2004 car accident” See The Baltimore Sun, 9/29/07.
Something tells me a claim for personal injuries may have been made.
First they get the meds paid for by us. Then they get the insurance company to pay up for the same meds?
Just an inquiry suggested here not an accusation.
Double Dipping?
I’m not a 24/7 member.
Someone who is should remind him of this.
I got a few calls...never from a reporter who wanted to talk. I also had a couple of folks coming at me over the net saying I should be in jail.
Looks like they are watching us watching them watching us watching them, sort of.
Which side of the political spectrum likes the word "regulation" more than the other?
Clearly, that idiot knows absolutely nothing about conservatism.
Gee...sounds EXACTLY like what liberals do regarding the murder by abortion of babies, all for the reason that the parents aren't financially solvent...it's a conscious, unconscionable choice.
What a load of projectionist hooey. It's the liberals that want to control everyone's lives through a HUGE, bureaucratic government.
*Po Folks with granite countertops Bump*
IF you read before you post you would see that things were already worked out.
He was kinder a than you. I have already apologized. Try reading before you post. Not always easy to take it all in when you are busy, is it?
I was having a hard time believing that story so did a little looking and sure enough, from CNN:
Mother found guilty of child abuse, fraud for making daughter sick
October 7, 1999
Web posted at: 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) — A Florida jury Thursday found a woman guilty of intentionally making her daughter sick and forcing her to undergo more than 40 needless surgeries, in what prosecutors called a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Sentencing is set for November 12.
Forty-two-year old Kathy Bush had been charged with aggravated child abuse and fraud for bilking thousands of dollars from the State of Florida for medical expenses incurred by her daughter, Jennifer. The mother faces up to 45 years in prison.
When the verdict was announced, Bush’s 17-year-old son wept on the shoulder of a young woman, his face contorted. Neither Bush nor her husband showed any immediate response. But, as she was led out of the courtroom, Kathy Bush burst into tears.
Prosecutors claimed the woman suffered from a rare psychological disorder called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a condition in which a parent intentionally makes her child sick in order to gain sympathy and attention for herself.
By the time Jennifer was eight years old, she had spent 640 days in hospitals and had undergone more than 40 surgeries. She had had her appendix, gall bladder, and part of her intestines removed due to what doctors believed was a gastrointestinal disorder. She was fed through a feeding tube.
The girl’s plight even attracted the attention of first lady Hillary Clinton, who cited her case as an example of the high cost of medical care.
In 1996, Jennifer was removed from her parents’ home and has been in foster care since. Her feeding tube was removed shortly after she was taken from her parents and prosecutors say she has been living a normal life, free of hospitals and drugs, ever since. She is now 12 years old.
Defense attorneys said that Jennifer Bush’s chronic illnesses were caused by genetics, and that Kathy Bush was a loving mother who did her best to care for he daughter. They said that the state presented no witnesses and that the case was a fraud and that the doctors never disputed the necessity of their surgeries.
Bush met Hillary Clinton during the health care reform debate five years ago
“Kathy didn’t do it.,” argued attorney Robert Buschel. “You would have to believe she outsmarted board certified doctors.”
Because the judge refused to allow prosecutors to argue the syndrome as a motive, the prosecution presented a largely circumstantial case.
Nurses and doctors testified they suspected Kathy Bush tampered with her daughter’s feeding pump, and gave her unprescribed medication. One nurse testified that she once heard Jennifer yelling, “No Mommy, No,” inside her hospital room.
The nurse said she entered the room and saw Jennifer’s mother putting something inside the girl’s mouth. But on cross examination, the nurse acknowledged that Bush could have been brushing her daughter’s teeth.
Neither mother nor daughter testified during the three-month trial. Jason Bush, one of Bush’s sons, did take the stand to defend his mother.
Kathy Bush will be jailed pending a hearing next Tuesday to decide whether her bond will be extended. She had been free on bond throughout the trial.
Kathy Bush and her husband, Craig, face another legal fight with the state. Florida is trying to terminate their parental rights to Jennifer in a separate court action that has not been scheduled.
Right after Green Helmet Guy and Bomb attracting Homeless woman.
It is evident that this family has its priorities screwed up.
Choise: private schools & tuition or health insurance for the kids.
Choice: extensive home remodelling or health insurance for the kids.
Choice: living beyond your means or health insurance for the kids.
Why hasn’t some liberal called them bad parents?
Yes, these people should be forced to suffer and struggle some more....c and been forced to give up the breadwinner's income (and he should go work at McWal-mart) ...because that is what a humane society insists upon before they provide them with healthcare assistance. Yup and they should have been forced to sell and move out of their house (that had most likely risen in value subtantially like most homes over the past decade did due to the housing bubble)and sold their granite counter tops and been forced to moved into a Section 8 funded apartment because gawd forbid they better most certainly be struggling before those kids and this family were aided by our American society in any way shape or form. That's the spirit....the American way.
Exactly...Washington liberals tax these people out their ass for everything, and then it's only normal for the rest of the country to pay health care for their children..
hey, moonbat boy..Reduce the taxes so they can AFFORD health insurance for their own family.
The logic that moonbat displays is SO SCREWED UP.
Please ping me when this photo shows up with “Looter Guy” shopped into the background.
Apropos, oui?
So add Kathy Bush and this family to the list of fraudsters.
Here is an interesting thought. The libs, in looking for true victims of circumstance, just happen to come across phony cases.
What does that say about the proportion of REAL victims to people just wanting to steal our money?
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