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Obama Used Faulty Anecdote in Speech to Congress. He said a man named Otto S. Raddatz died from cancer after being dropped from insurance. In fact the man didn't die 3 weeks later like Obama said. He died 4 years later! Lie or Mistake on Obama?
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President's speech writers appear to have been informed by erroneous media reports, including an article on Slate.com, about a man who was dropped from his insurance plan and later died.
WASHINGTON -- Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
"They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address.
In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Raddatz's policy REINSTATED WITHIN 3 WEEKS of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.
Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct. Raddatz was dropped from his insurance plan weeks before a scheduled stem-cell transplant.
In a letter, Babs Waldman, medical director of the Illinois attorney general's office, excoriated the insurer, Fortis Health, which is now Assurant Health. Raddatz "suddenly faces not only life-threatening illness but now the inability to afford the only treatment that may help him," Dr. Waldman wrote to the insurer May 3, 2005.
Peter Duckler, a spokesman for Assurant Health, said the company "can never comment on an insured's coverage due to confidentiality issues."
The patient's sister, Peggy M. Raddatz, testified before the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee June 16 that her brother ultimately received treatment that "extended his life approximately three years." Nowhere in the hearing did she say her brother died because of the delay. Ms. Raddatz didn't return calls seeking comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/obama-used-faulty-...
President's speech writers appear to have been informed by erroneous media reports, including an article on Slate.com, about a man who was dropped from his insurance plan and later died.
WASHINGTON -- Obama, seeking to make a case for health-insurance regulation, told a poignant story to a joint session of Congress last week. An Illinois man getting chemotherapy was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn't known about.
"They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it," the president said in the nationally televised address.
In fact, the man, Otto S. Raddatz, didn't die because the insurance company rescinded his coverage once he became ill, an act known as recission. The efforts of his sister and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan got Raddatz's policy REINSTATED WITHIN 3 WEEKS of his April 2005 rescission and secured a life-extending stem-cell transplant for him. Raddatz died this year, nearly four years after the insurance showdown.
Obama aides say the president got the essence of the story correct. Raddatz was dropped from his insurance plan weeks before a scheduled stem-cell transplant.
In a letter, Babs Waldman, medical director of the Illinois attorney general's office, excoriated the insurer, Fortis Health, which is now Assurant Health. Raddatz "suddenly faces not only life-threatening illness but now the inability to afford the only treatment that may help him," Dr. Waldman wrote to the insurer May 3, 2005.
Peter Duckler, a spokesman for Assurant Health, said the company "can never comment on an insured's coverage due to confidentiality issues."
The patient's sister, Peggy M. Raddatz, testified before the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee June 16 that her brother ultimately received treatment that "extended his life approximately three years." Nowhere in the hearing did she say her brother died because of the delay. Ms. Raddatz didn't return calls seeking comment.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/obama-used-faulty-...
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Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
It changes nothing to them. As long as it is HIM lying, they are OK with it.
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
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Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Lying....? I am waiting for the first truth to come out of this administration. It's been one deflection after another, it like a house of mirrors
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
"The following comment is from Michael Connelly of Carrollton , Texas , a retired attorney and constitutional law instructor who states he has read the entire health care bill and has some comments, not about the bill, but
about the impact upon our Constitution. It's a broader picture than just health care reform."
In essence this retired lawyer/constitution law instructor says:
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILL
I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government
that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application
of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allo...
"The following comment is from Michael Connelly of Carrollton , Texas , a retired attorney and constitutional law instructor who states he has read the entire health care bill and has some comments, not about the bill, but
about the impact upon our Constitution. It's a broader picture than just health care reform."
In essence this retired lawyer/constitution law instructor says:
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILL
I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government
that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application
of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of
property without the "due process of law."
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
He and his whole administration just made a mistake for his very important speech.
Just one big ass mistake after another.
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
He and his whole administration just made a mistake for his very important speech.
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Sure, russias selling weapons to iran, irans threatening to wipe israel off the map, chavez is starving his own people, and thats just for starters. But! we gotta work on SOCIALISM...THATS whats important
thanks bill ayers.....
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
Obama lied to get his healthcare sold! To what level will he go to!
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