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Løj Obama om sin mors sygforsikring under sin valgkampagne?

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"

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. This is the time which Obama says his mother battled the insurance companies to cover her illness. 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

She came from another country to the United States and received her medical care. 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. Dunham protested the decision and informed Cigna that she was turning the case over to my son, an attorney, Barack Obama. Cigna did not budge.

September 1995 Dunham traveled to New York for an evaluation at renowned Memorial Sloan‑Kettering. She returned to Hawaii, began a new course of treatment. She died in November. A dozen years later her son turned ordeal into a campaign pitch for national healthcare. But the story Obama told Scott Wright was abbreviated. The abbreviation was to leave out the fact that she had health insurance and it paid for her treatment. Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a preexisting condition. It appears from her correspondence in her own writing that she was only denied disability coverage. That’s a different story altogether but one that nobody in the press seems to care.

What are some other Obama healthcare related lies that have been exposed?

Og det er ovenikøbet kommet fra en bog der er skrevet af en medarbejder ved NY Times! Overraskende

Til folk som er interesseret i den mere realitetsbaserede del af amerikansk politik: Obama trak $86 mio. det foerste kvartal. Sammenlign det med Republikanerne som er midt i deres valgkampagner.

@ Soldatino

Det er et eller andet sted alvorligt bekymrende, at du citerer fra Glenn Becks website og overhovedet ikke forholder dig kritisk til indholdet.

Det er jo en bevidst beslutning at saadan vil han have sin Weltanschauung til at se ud, og det skal han da have lov til. Han har ydermere gjort det klart at fakta ikke er noget der kan rykke det.

Uanset om det er tungen på vægtskålen i valgkampen, så er det skræmmende man har medier som Murdochs, som så åbenlyst fordrejer fakta til i enhver given situation at passe til republikansk politik.

Hele den fødsels-attest "storm i et glas vand" de forsøgte sig med, løb heldigvis også ud i sandet. Dog var det priceless at se Trump blive owned i den forbindelse

"Hele den fødsels-attest "storm i et glas vand" de forsøgte sig med, løb heldigvis også ud i sandet."

Saa du resultaterne af midtvejsvalget?

Saa du resultaterne af midtvejsvalget?

Ja ok Tea Party og co. har nok scoret nogle pladser på den konto. Desværre.. Men også den eneste måde at gøre det på, når man ikke har nogen substans i sin politik.

Concort,

"Til folk som er interesseret i den mere realitetsbaserede del af amerikansk politik: Obama trak $86 mio. det foerste kvartal. Sammenlign det med Republikanerne som er midt i deres valgkampagner."

Hvordan ser det ud i forhold til samme periode ved hans sidste valgkamp?

Det er usammenligneligt. Som kandidat i et primaer valg er der penge der gives som kun kan bruges i en generel kampagne. Men det er meget, meget mere end i 2008 paa dette tidspunkt og over alle forventninger.

"Det er et eller andet sted alvorligt bekymrende, at du citerer fra Glenn Becks website og overhovedet ikke forholder dig kritisk til indholdet"

Ved du har det svært med kilder du ikke er enig med, men føler du dig bedre hvis det kommer fra NY Times, stoler du så mere på troværdigheden af informationerne?

http://www.nytimes.com/2…_r=1&ref=us

Dog ikke fra igår, men i dag.

"Ms. Scott took a leave from her job as a reporter for The New York Times to write the book and has not returned to the staff." Mon der ligger noget i det efter bogen kom på gaden? Eller trænger hun blot til ferie.