This could be the one that breaks it.
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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Al Gore did it with his sister's death from lung cancer. Said he promised at her death bed to fight big tobacco -- but took contributions from them for years afterward.
Very few politicians are trustworthy, and some are down right despicable. They will tell any lie to advance their careers and completly destroy anyone who gets in their way.
No conscience and no shame.
This could be the one that breaks it.
But watch this story. If it reaches a broader public, Obama's people will deny that he ever said his mother was denied coverage. Of course that's not what he said and not what he was charged with saying. He said they "tried" to deny her coverage. That's apparently not true either, but denying something you aren't accused of is a classic lawyerly ploy and Obama isn't a lawyer for nothing. If worse comes to worse for him, his people make reference to the other disability policy that didn't work out for her, and they'll be very indignant about having this called into question. Indignation also works in situations like this -- at least for Democrats.
No. I certainly am not. If I was I would be skeered to open it. I was on the last administration’s CC list though.
Shame that BO’s last name is not Anthoney. He/his family lies as much or more than their entire disfuctional family. Left wing is going crazy over them, but has completely enabled the residents’ lies.
BTW thanks for the pings....No home internet in the near future....am going to plan C....D...or E.
I don’t think they’ve ever NOT lied and schemed to cheat some agency, school or govt program.
Hope your internet problems get cleared up soon.
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