Mythmaker in Chief

[cwo_ghwebb]

Does anyone get the feeling that Barack Obama would have made a great summer-camp cabin mate? Especially around the campfire, as kids began telling ghost stories to scare everyone else, Obama would probably have told the most outrageous and frightening stories — simply by embellishing stories he heard from other people. As President, he has shown himself adept at this practice, having wildly embellished two health-care horror stories in the past month to frighten people into backing ObamaCare:

One of President Barack Obama’s health care “horror stories” is about a woman who, he says, lost her health insurance on the verge of breast cancer surgery because she didn’t disclose a case of acne to the insurer. That’s not what happened.

Robin Lynn Beaton, 59, of Waxahachie, Texas, indeed had her insurance suspended and then terminated when she needed it the most. Hers is a cautionary tale about how an insurance company can act in a seemingly arbitrary manner to revoke coverage for lifesaving treatment.

But not for the reasons Obama cites.

She “was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne,” he said in one telling.

Beaton did not lose her insurance because she failed to own up to a skin problem in her past. She lost it because, when enrolling in the plan, she had not reported a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately.

As the Associated Press reports, the surgery she needed had nothing to do with a heart condition. However, hiding a pre-existing heart condition from an insurer is much more significant than an acne condition. Obama tells the story as if the insurer acted irrationally, when in fact the woman hid important information in order to obtain the insurance in the first place.

Obama fudges another health-care horror story

How many ways can one spell 'doofus'?

[Bann (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Obama fudges another health-care horror story

How many ways can one spell 'doofus'?

You're being too kind calling him a doofus!

I love how the media is covering up for him. This was not merely fudging, or embellishing a story. I think it was typical Liberal twisting the facts & outright lying to suit their agenda.

[mAlice]

Originally Posted by Bann

I think it was typical Liberal twisting the facts & outright lying to suit their agenda.

This.

[Pushrod]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

Obama fudges another health-care horror story

How many ways can one spell 'doofus'?

We all know He is a liar!

On the other hand, it was still a sh!tty thing for the insurance company to find some kind of excuse to dump her when she needed them most, even though it wasn't for a pre-existing condition.

This kind of action by the Insurance companies is where getting rid of the 3rd party payer system would benefit us. If we were purchasing our own insurance and heard instances of acts like this by certain insurance companies we could 'choose' to do our business with their competators, thereby forcing them to be more ethical or they would go out of business.
Capitalism works!

[ImnoMensa]

For a man like Obama to tell a lie, when he knows he will be caught in that lie could be considered ignorant.

However Obama also knows that the people he aims his lie at will believe him ,and even call those who catch his lie racist.

So he uses the lie and comes out ahead.

Supporters of Obama are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

[Aerogal]

On the other hand, it was still a sh!tty thing for the insurance company to find some kind of excuse to dump her when she needed them most, even though it wasn't for a pre-existing condition.

Yeah, it's just not right, BUT, lying on insurance application forms is fraud. They may not have covered her heart condition for a year or whatever their policy is about pre-existing (that might be a new thread), but she was the one that broke the contract .
- just for your SA - review your insurance application/policy and read the disclosures.

[cwo_ghwebb]

Originally Posted by Bann

You're being too kind calling him a doofus!

I apologize to all the doofuses (doofi?) out there!

[Bann (Premo)]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

I apologize to all the doofuses (doofi?) out there!

doofi!