Obama’s Campaign Tale About His Mother Being Denied Health Insurance Debunked…
(Byron York, Washington Examiner) — During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama often discussed his mother’s struggle with cancer. Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995, Obama said, fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
“I remember in the last month of her life, she wasn’t thinking about how to get well, she wasn’t thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality, she was thinking about whether or not insurance was going to cover the medical bills and whether our family would be bankrupt as a consequence,” Obama said in September 2007.
“She was in her hospital room looking at insurance forms because the insurance company said that maybe she had a pre-existing condition and maybe they wouldn’t have to reimburse her for her medical bills,” Obama added in January 2008.
“The insurance companies were saying, ‘Maybe there’s a pre-existing condition and we don’t have to pay your medical bills,’” Obama said in a debate with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain in October 2008.
It was a simple and powerful story, one Obama would tell many more times as president during the national health care debate. But now we’re learning the real story of Ann Dunham’s health coverage is not quite what her son made it out to be.
The news is in “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” a generally admiring new biography written by former New York Times reporter Janny Scott. . . .
Scott, who had access to Dunham’s correspondence from the time, reveals that Dunham unquestionably had health coverage. “Ann’s compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance, which covered most of the costs of her medical treatment,” Scott writes. “Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month.”
A dozen years later, her son turned her ordeal into a campaign pitch for national health care. But the story Obama told, Scott writes, was “abbreviated” — the abbreviation was to leave out the fact that Ann Dunham had health insurance that paid for her treatment. “Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition,” Scott writes, “it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage.”
That’s a different story altogether. One the president never told.
HT: Fox Nation
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at 1:28 pm | 
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Barry was probably so stoned in 1995 he did’nt know his ass from his elbow………..come to think of it he still don’t……..
This is rich. Too bad the the majority of the main stream media won’t bother publishing the truth. It’s rather insightful, I find.
Barry is a pathological liar. He even contradicts himself in the same speech. I don’t think he is capable of telling the truth.
Huh, would would have thought? A Marxist revolutionary telling a lie to advance his agenda. Color me shocked. And about his own mother too. Guess that pretty well defines the intended scope of the phrase “By any means necessary.” I wonder. If a guy would lie about his own mother on her deathbed, would he would lie about anything else?
Barry Sotero, is that you??
This should have come out in 2008 right after the first time he told the stupid story. Where is the MSM….oh, in Obama pocket along with George Sores!
YOU LIE!! (again!)
Friggin Liar-in-Chief…agenda matters, first and foremost, at the cost to the American people.
Past infuriating…this had better go viral!
Lies and half truthes from barry? Who would have imagined.
(barry, you are a National Disgrace)
Everything about him is a lie. We all know it, Congress knows it, the Media knows it.
BeckyC –
You beat me to it!
I believe the congressman was right!
YOU LIE! Hussein!
When has this son of a bitch ever said anything remotely close to truth?
Denied my ass. Liberal don’t apply for health insurance; it’s a heriditary expectation someone else will pay for ALL THEIR NEEDS, from birth to grave.
Such utter bullshit!
he also lied about his mother receiving food stamps
Nothing about this evil dickweed or anything that is vomitted from his mouth IS truthful.
I. DESPISE. THIS. MAN. and his IDEOLOGY.
Where did she get the money to fly from Hawaii to NY for an evaluation?
The lies never end. I wish this woman would have had an abortion.
Liar-in-Chief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When with the rest of this world wake up to the realize what this assclown is doing???
@ Axel
I wish “her” mother would have had an abortion – and kept two generations of moochers from breathing good air.
I contend, He had his “mother” off’d. Knowing full well, she may pull the veil off his islamic/marxist checkered past, and unravel everything he an his handlers has worked toward for years to undermine and subvert the laws and Constitution.
To him, she was just another whitey who had to pay.
George Bush never told the blatant lies this asshat spews.
As the USURPER always says “LIES be more truthful!”.
This communist that occupies the oval office does nothing but spew forth lies. The house should get all the records of everything that he has done that is illegal and throw his ass in jail, or better yet deport him to his true motherland. I am sure the shredders are already working overtime in the White House because of the records the house asked for on his illegal fund raisers in the White House.
And in the same political party.
Al Baby…………….. I invented the Internet.
But my favorite story of Al’s was when he told a group of Union Workers that his Mother used to sing him to sleep with the song “Look for the Union Label”
Turns out that Al was 27 years old when that song was written. That must have been a very strange household if this activity was taking place.
The Shrew……………….. I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary
Hot Dog Boy………………….. My account was hacked
Richard Blumenthal……………… I served in Vietnam
Bildo…………………………. I did not have sex with that women
Jesus Christ, you could go on and on with this group. There is absolutely and positively no bottom that this group will sink to for their agenda.
If someone were to compile a list of lies from these individuals, it would most likely endanger the supply of ones and zeros that create the world binary code.
I got naked pictures of your mother, Barack.
She was quite the little party whore.
@SniffyPop
isn’t the internet grand? I love squashing the lies they spew. they are dispatched so much quicker now.
i should shut up. THEY will probably shut it down now.
The Obamas have all the class of a used condom lying in the gutter.
Keep Honkin – I agree. He was certainly involved with the death of his grandmother. Lots of contradictions and murky details.
This fits the narrative for Il Douche: if it ain’t true- MAKE IT UP. There are so many examples of his sorry ass doing this that I won’t take the time to type them all out..but we all know that this is the truth about this shitbag. If the facts don’t fit, well hell, add some made up shit…..he knows that the MSM won’t bother touch his bullshit so feels that he’s insulated from any ‘fact check’ by them (e.g., if govt shuts down SS recipients won’t get their check. TOTAL BS- but you won’t hear that as it doesn’t fit the meme of the MSM).
Normal people lie occasionally. Normally Oturd lies making it impossible to detect when he is rational, if he‘s ever rational.
Obamanocios probosis is getting loner and longer each day
Moby McTrollpuppet says:
July 12, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Barry Sotero, is that you??
Ya’ dang skippy it is. I was a cute kid, turned out to be a suave, sexy awesomely-awesome Adonis like God. Now, bow your heads and praise my name!
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-
“Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…”
Just goes to show you………..
zer0 WILL LIE TO GET HIS WAY……….
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LIKE ALL PROGRESSIVES…….
THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.
Look at that white woman bitterly cling to her baby.
It looks like he would know more about his mother’s affairs than anybody else. Let’s not be so quick to be negative. Wouldn’t you know more about your mother’s affairs than anyone else? I would hope that what I said and knew about my mother would be more of the truth than what anyone else knew or said.
She was a psychotic WHORE to begin with!
Templar233,
There actually are Naked Pics of Obama’s Mom on the Internet. They were taken by Frank Marshall Davis at a friends house during the Christmas Holiday. The date of them is unknown. (Probably 1959 when she was 17 years old, Davis WAS a communistic pedophile) This is the same Frank Marshall Davis that Obama/Ayers mentions in their book as Obama’s Mentor and Father Figure.
Are they at the zoo?……