WaPo: Obama Movie Misleads on Obama's Mother's Insurance | The ...

The Washington Post?s fact checker, Glenn Kessler, gave the Obama movie three?Pinocchios?for its misleading claims about Obama?s mother and her insurance situation at the time she died of cancer. President Obama has made the claim that as she lay dying of cancer they were in a fight with her health insurance company to get coverage for her condition. It?s been shown that she had pretty decent health care coverage, she only had to pay co-payments and deductibles that weren?t very high. The problem she had was with a disability policy. But the movie misleads viewers into thinking otherwise.

Now let?s look at what the movie does with this story. It does not directly repeat the claim that Obama?s mother was denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, fighting for treatment in her hospital room. But look at what it does say:

1. Hanks says the president knew the cost of waiting on reform. (Though disability coverage was not an issue in the health care debate.)

2. The president says cancer ?drained all her resources.? (Health insurance paid for most of her bills, so this is not the case of someone being bankrupted by tens of thousands of dollars in bills. Her salary of $82,500 in 1995 was the equivalent of $123,000 today, but Scott says she had little savings.)

3. Michelle Obama says Dunham ?never really had good, consistent insurance.? (It is unclear what she means by this, except maybe that Dunham had different jobs, some of which did not provide insurance. But Dunham had good health coverage when the cancer was discovered.)

4. The first lady also suggests the death ?could have been prevented.? (Again, it was not an insurance issue. Before going overseas, Dunham was too busy with work and had skipped an important test recommended by her U.S. doctor, dilation and curettage, that might have spotted the cancer earlier. Then an Indonesian doctor diagnosed her problem as appendicitis and removed her appendix. By the time the cancer was finally discovered, it was third-stage.)

5. Hanks says that Obama?s family felt ?the pressure of rising costs and the fear of being denied or dropped from coverage.? (Maybe for disability, but not health insurance.)

Read the whole thing. I can?t wait to read the comments from our liberal trolls calling Kessler a liar and telling us how the Washington Post is in the tank for the GOP. Because we all know that Dear Obama would never, ever, say anything misleading to the American people. Oh, and the folks in Hollywood never, ever, twist history to fit whatever narrative they?re trying to sell. Oh no. Why, if they did, we?d be getting near $16 trillion in national debt and would have an ever-expanding welfare state. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Tags: disability, health insurance, lies, mother, movie, obama

Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/03/wapo-obama-movie-misleads-on-obamas-mothers-insurance/

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