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FACT CHECK: In health debate, Obama's stories of hardship don't always hold up to scrutiny
StarTribune ^ | 9/29/09 | CALVIN WOODWARD , Associated Press

Posted on 09/29/2009 4:04:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

One of President Barack Obama's health care "horror stories" is about a woman who, he says, lost her health insurance on the verge of breast cancer surgery because she didn't disclose a case of acne to the insurer. That's not what happened.

Robin Lynn Beaton, 59, of Waxahachie, Texas, indeed had her insurance suspended and then terminated when she needed it the most. Hers is a cautionary tale about how an insurance company can act in a seemingly arbitrary manner to revoke coverage for lifesaving treatment.

But not for the reasons Obama cites.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: factcheck; lies; obamacare; socializedmedicine
He lies......
1 posted on 09/29/2009 4:04:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Nuff said 24/7/365


2 posted on 09/29/2009 4:07:45 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If you have or recently had any quasi-serious condition they won’t want to touch you with a ten foot pole. Not that I blame their underwriters, because modern plans are not designed for catastrophic event coverage but for maintenance coverage.


3 posted on 09/29/2009 4:08:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I think back when we had Clinton and Hillary in office and those times pale in comparison to the corruption, delusion and absence of truth that we are experiencing with Obama and Michelle!
4 posted on 09/29/2009 4:09:38 PM PDT by classified
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

And if even the “Red” Star/Tribune can smell a lefty Prez’s BS, then he’s producing an awful lot of it.


5 posted on 09/29/2009 4:09:52 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He lies! Yes he does!


6 posted on 09/29/2009 4:16:59 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: pogo101

Looks like a lot of folks are getting ready to backpedal on the Bummer.


7 posted on 09/29/2009 4:17:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

In health debate, Obama’s stories of hardship don’t EVER hold up to scrutiny


8 posted on 09/29/2009 4:25:45 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: stubernx98

As we continue to discover.....


9 posted on 09/29/2009 4:27:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I just got a spam email from my Senator Sherrod Brown. I guess I’m on his email list because I got into it with him once on amnesty and left him with a electronic black eye.

Anyway he was touting how Obama’s Health Care Plan was going to solve everyone’s problem here in Ohio, and how he’s been hosting meetings all across Ohio.

I replied:

“Horse manure. Why don’t you have a real town hall meeting instead of hosting events with hand-picked attendees. Coward!”


10 posted on 09/29/2009 4:27:26 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: OrioleFan

Excellent!!


11 posted on 09/29/2009 4:28:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: stubernx98

Since coverage is currently so heavily tied to employment, most credible hardship stories are connected with the unemployed. That’s a worm can that Bummer doesn’t want to touch because it unmasks his “wonderful economy.”


12 posted on 09/29/2009 4:29:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What amazes me is the lack of what I will call an “H.L. Mencken ‘conscience’” in the White House speechwriting department.

Mencken defined “conscience,” you see, as (paraphrasing closely) “that little voice inside your head whispering, ‘you might get caught.’”

Well, shouldn’t it occur to WHITE HOUSE speechwriters that their anecdotes about this or that “victim” will be gone over with thousands of fine-toothed combs? and therefore that the anecdotes had better be the truth, the WHOLE!! truth?


13 posted on 09/29/2009 4:34:18 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: pogo101

They have a mindset that was more suited to a time when there was no Internet. There was only the liberal TV media and liberal rags and they could safely dish out their pablum. But that wascally Al Gore, he had to go invent something to upset their applecart.


14 posted on 09/29/2009 4:37:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This is the next best thing to Lil’ Dick Gephardt’s pretend friends.


15 posted on 09/29/2009 5:31:09 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: SERKIT

Ha!!!


16 posted on 09/29/2009 5:37:29 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: pogo101

Their are actually two little voice teams. Sociopaths have the one that says, “I’m smarter than everyone, they’ll never catch on.”


17 posted on 09/29/2009 5:45:37 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: SERKIT

WHY do leftist sob stories always turn out to be fraudulent?


18 posted on 09/29/2009 7:47:46 PM PDT by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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The press should have been all over these stories, interviewing the family, exposing the lies. Gross malfeasance.


19 posted on 09/29/2009 8:24:17 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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