Everyone who assumed that Obama's little story about the woman who died from breast cancer without health insurance was full of crap? Yup. Full of crap.

She wasn't without insurance after all.  It appears that she had catastrophic care insurance with a $5,000 deductible.  Oh, she also was a small business owner who apparently decided to use her savings to invest in the business instead of going to the doctor.  Also, note how the story doesn't even begin to acknowledge the inherent contradiction between the whole no insurance meme and discussing how her evil insurance company wouldn't cover a treatment.  Well, now, doesn't that rather concede she had insurance?

Look, I am sorry for her family and friends that she died.  But she chose to turn her illness into a political issue.  Pres. Obama then used her death for political advantage.  It is now fair game to see if the claims being made are true.  Apparently, the story being given is less than accurate.  She did have insurance.  She does not appear to have been impoverished.  It reads to me like she made a very very bad choice to ignore her health and paid a terrible price.  That's awful.  But it's not an indictment of the entire health care industry.  She did not die from lack of insurance/lack of health care.  She died because cancer is an utter bitch and cuts people down with no regard for anything at all.  Life is horrible and unfair.  That doesn't mean that there's some evil Big Insurance Monopoly that is injecting people with cancer while laughing ala Snidley Whiplash.

Not only did Obama turn her death into an ode to himself, the story isn't even accurate.  Of course it's not.  Did anyone think it would be?

Posted by: alexthechick at 08:01 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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