Posted on 07/14/2011 12:30:06 AM PDT by STARWISE
So has the President been caught in a massive lie? Apparently author Scott Wright has been doing some research on stories he told on the campaign trail, and he has found some contradictory information – primarily that a story he told on the campaign trail about his mother’s cancer coverage was exaggerated, to say the least.
“For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in a hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a preexisting condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.
“There is something fundamentally wrong about that. It’s a lie,” Pat said. “Her insurance company covered her completely for the problem that she was suffering.”
“That is weird. According now to the records in January 1995, she left Indonesia to go to Honolulu where she was diagnosed with an advanced uterine and ovarian cancer. She began a regimen of surgery and chemotherapy.
*snip*
But Scott, an author of a new book who has access to Dunham’s correspondence from the time reveals that she unquestionably had health coverage.
Ann’s compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance which covered most of the cost of her medical treatment,” Glenn read.
Glenn emphasized that she came from another country to the United States and received her medical care. Pat added that she was actually misdiagnosed in Indonesia, where she was said to have appendicitis.
“Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly leaving Ann only to pay the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which she said claimed to be several hundred dollars a month.
Scott Wright said Dunham, who wanted to be compensated for those costs as well as for her living expenses.
She filed a separate claim under her employer’s disability insurance policy. It was that claim with the insurance company Cigna that was declined in August 1995 because as Cigna investigators said, her condition was known before she was covered by the policy.
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Is there nothing about which there aren't lies....
.. Zing!
“Is there nothing about which there aren’t lies....”
No. His whole life is a lie. I am not sure HE even knows his real name, where he was born...IF he was born and not manufactured, or who birthed him.
My guess would be a jackal and his REAL name is Damien. But that’s just me.
Bill Clinton was given the same press coverage and he became “Liar in Chief”.
Make no mistake Republicans out there who think “Say anything Mitt” has a chance. The media will ignore all his whoppers long enough to put him on their Tee. Then it will be 18 holes to election day and Mitt will be dissected with a Putter and exposed. It will be one time the MSM does their job but in a self serving manner. Mitt's the best candidate to get their Boy Wonder reelected because he lies just like Barry. Effectively taking the issue off the table.
In other news, liberal academics were stunned to learn that water is, in fact, wet.
What kind of sick sorry bass turd would use his own mother’s death as a demagogic lie? That’s so sick it would make Hannibal Lector lose his lunch.
Biden did it with the death of his first wife.
let us not forget john edwards. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Al Gore did it with his sister’s death from lung cancer.
I knew just as soon as I posted that that I was going to be getting reply after reply. I should have known better.
I’ll be getting answers for days.
It’s a testament to your popularity...and to the fact that only a few of us are insane enough to be up at this ungodly hour.
LOL Well, that was very nice of you to say but I’m afraid it’s really a testament to just what kind of slugs become politicians. But you’re right about the insomnia. ;^)
(There, that's better)
That and to the fact that liberals, supposedly the caring folks among us, are anything but when it comes right down to it.
That lie was a relatively benign one compared to the real scandalous lie that the establishment conservatives want to ignore:
I hate to shout like that but dammit when is "our side" going to get a clue? When you can lie about who you are there is no limit to the lies you can tell.
They do care about something. I just haven’t figured out what yet....not that I stay up nights wondering or anything.
balack obama is am animated figment of his own imagination...a true representation of “he thinks, therefore he is.”
Or is it he is before he thinks? I’m so confused.
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