He also brought this up in his Denver acceptance speech and my immediate response as he said it was “So why didn’t YOU help her, you bum?”
“And — and as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.”
http://ww w.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html?pagewanted=4&_r=1
He says he WATCHED her argue with insurance companies. When? She was either in New York or in Hawaii and he was in Illinois so this is either sloppy language or (oh-oh)another lie like his phony, could-never-have-happened astronaut story from the same speech. And since he makes it “companies” this certainly sounds like she was trying to get insurance after she was already diagnosed.
I just want to add something I found out tonight. According to this article, Ann took an apartment next to her parents’ when she returned to Hawaii to die.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080823/NEWS05/80822063/-1/RSS02