WingNut Wrote:
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> I had forgotten all about this, but it was during
> the debate with McCain in 2008. It was revealed to
> be a lie then, but like most of this presidents
> lies of the past 5+ years, it was either ignored
> or forgiven by the complicit media.
>
> OBAMA:
For my mother to die of cancer at the age
> of 53 and have to spend the last months of her
> life in the 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
>
>
The National Review throws water on this
> fabrication (with the help of a writer from the
> New York Times who wrote a biography on the
> presidents mother) .."But when New York
> Times reporter Janny Scott researched the issue
> for her biography of the president’s mother, she
> discovered letters proving beyond a doubt that
> CIGNA never denied Dunham coverage for her
> disease. The dispute was over a disability plan
> that would have paid some of Dunham’s other
> expenses."
>
> "The White House did not deny Scott’s account,
> but shrugged it off as something that had happened
> long ago. Not so long that it couldn’t be milked
> one last time, though, for a 2012 campaign film.
> In The Road We’ve Traveled, the message remained
> unchanged — a greedy insurance company had cut
> off Stanley Ann Dunham at her moment of maximum
> vulnerability and cost her her life."
>
>
Writes Mona Charen of the National
> Review:Doubtless that’s what Mr. Obama
> tells himself to justify his deceptions. It’s a
> form of “lying for justice.” If your goals are
> noble enough, truth is an acceptable casualty.
>
> Mr. Obama’s propensity to lie is finally
> widely acknowledged, but that acknowledgment
> hasn’t gone far enough. It isn’t just that the
> pledge about keeping your plan was a noble lie —
> the whole law is based upon lies.
>
> The Stanley Dunham tale was meant to personify the
> hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans who
> were “dumped” by insurance companies when they
> got sick. This is an invented tale, and might have
> been rebutted by the insurance industry if they
> hadn’t gotten into bed with Obama in 2010 in
> return for millions of coerced new customers. As
> the Washington Free Beacon reported, academic
> studies have estimated that policies were dropped
> in only four-tenths of 1 percent of cases in the
> individual market....
>
> ....The notion that the nation faced a
> “crisis” of “46 million uninsured” was
> also dishonest. Pre-Obamacare health care in
> America was hardly nirvana, but the truth about
> the uninsured, according to the Congressional
> Budget Office, was that 71 percent were without
> insurance for a year or less. Only about 16
> percent were uninsured for two or more years. More
> than 9 million of those counted among the
> uninsured were not citizens. Another 6 million who
> said they were without insurance actually were
> signed up with Medicaid, and 4 million more were
> eligible for Medicaid but had failed to enroll.
>
> The true number of the uninsured was closer to
> 15 million (5 million of whom were young, single
> adults). There were many possible solutions for
> them that didn’t require tearing down the entire
> system. In any case, the CBO estimates that even
> if Obamacare were fully implemented, and worked
> smoothly, the number of uninsured Americans in
> 2023 would be, drumroll please, 30 million.
>
> Obamacare was never about the uninsured, or
> justice for those badly treated by insurance
> companies. It was always about power — gaining
> it and keeping it for the Democratic party and the
> central government. It was based on lies about the
> preceding system and sold on lies about its
> consequences
>
>
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