Remember the weeping tale of Otto S. Raddatz? Or how about Robin Lynn Beaton? You just can’t make this stuff up…(or can you?)
Why do Democrats so love tugging on heartstrings? President Obama relentlessly push-peddles heartache anecdotes to persuade, even if these stories are highly selective and false. Even when pointed out to him, he has still repeated the same heartbreaking, inaccurate stories in stump-speeches, time and time again.
No, he’s not merely mistaken as the recipient of bad information. President Obama is deliberately deceiving the American public by knowingly telling falsehoods. Joe Wilson was right.
The latest tale, is that of Natoma Canfield (cue the violins):
The president spent almost a third of his lecture discussing her case, and he claims he’s been talking about her in meetings with insurance companies. Ms. Canfield is a self-employed cleaning lady who dropped her $500-per-month insurance plan because she felt she couldn’t afford the insurance premiums, only to discover she suffered from leukemia.
“She was very sick. She expects to face more than a month of aggressive chemotherapy,” the president said. “She is racked with worry not only about her illness, but about the costs of the tests and the treatment that she’s surely going to need to beat it.” Then came the whopper: Mr. Obama claimed he’s pushing for a government takeover of health care because of “the added burden of medical bills they can’t pay.”
Fortunately for Ms. Canfield, she is getting medical care at the famous Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s top medical facilities. But despite Mr. Obama’s claims that she’s “racked with worry” and might lose her house because of her medical bills, it turns out that the existing system is working pretty well. At the time of Mr. Obama speech, Ms. Canfield already was being checked to see if she qualified for financial aid.
“She may be eligible for state Medicaid … and/or she will be eligible for charity [care] of some form or type. … In my personal opinion, she will be eligible for something,” said Lyman Sornberger, executive director of patient financial services at the Cleveland Clinic, to Fox News. “Cleveland Clinic will not put a lien on her home.”
This is not Ms. Canfield’s first bout with cancer. Given her history as a cancer survivor, $500 per month for insurance isn’t extreme. Cancer treatments and surgery routinely run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This is beside the point, however, because Obamacare won’t help with insurance costs. In fact, the Democrats’ health care bill adds expensive mandates on medical procedures to be covered, such as unlimited lifetime insurance benefits and no limits on co-payments. Even some Democrats must understand that increasing benefits will raise insurance premiums.
Contrary to the bleak picture Mr. Obama is conjuring up, most Americans are happy with their own health care, including those with serious health problems. According to a study in Regulation magazine last summer, 92 percent of those with insurance who were suffering from chronic illness rated their health insurance as excellent or good. Even uninsured Americans are reasonably satisfied with their care – about as happy as Canadians who are covered by their government system.
Everyone would like cheaper insurance, but the notion that government will lower costs is absurd. Even if Mr. Obama’s stories were true, help for people such as Ms. Canfield could be much more targeted. There is no crisis of care that justifies undoing the entire U.S. health care system.
It’s really sad to see the WH turn in to a Big Top and Air Force One turned into a clown car……
I weep for my country.
If this President cares so much about those who are suffering, why is he not denouncing Fidel Castro for murdering Orlando Zapata? If Obama is for the poors and those who are deprived why is he so quiet about Guillermo Farinas? Maybe Marxist Dictators do not denounce others Marxists!
HA HA HA HA HA!
Want to know why the Clevelabnd Clinic will not put a lien on her house?
Because it would be illegal in the State of Ohio!
Somehow I doubt that the Moonie Times writer knew that little fact.
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No birth certificate
Cannot stop smoking
Difficulty telling the truth.
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Greetings:
I think that the Cleveland Clinic’s decision not to “put a lien on her house” is a good example of how we reached this sorry state of affairs. Why shouldn’t she have to liquidate whatever equity she has in her house? It’s her asset. When liabilities, in this case medical bills, exceed your cash on hand you liquidate your assets and pay them off.
This logic, that the Clinic, the patient, and the government can all decide to shift the financial burden of the woman’s care to the taxpayer is the same type logic that caused the “housing crisis”.
Why should she be able to retain her equity while those who have their assets in stocks, bonds, or businesses are deemed vulnerable?
I had a professor back in college who asserted that the reason mortgage interest was tax deductible was because owning your own home was kind of a business, an investment in real property and like other business expenses, it was deductible.
If you wonder how a country ends up with 30 million people without health insurance, letting other taxpayers pick up their bills is a great place to start.
Wow.
I think hell just froze.
BRob is laughing at the fact that Obama lied about Ms. Canfield home possibly being forclosed on.
Welcome Brob. We laugh at him all the time.
@BRob:
HA HA HA HA
It’s Obama that needs a factchecker, how useful is a factchecker to a liar?
It is also the fault of Republicans, conservatives, and anyone else who signed on to the proposition that health care is “broken” and something needs to be done, just not this fix. Leftists are using the same claim for everything else they want fixed (read destroyed.) And the rest of us will by dribs and drabs go along by admitting that “everyone would like cheaper insurance”, cheaper food, cheaper educations, cars, homes, cable and satelite entertainment. With admission, we admit the leftist in to do their dirty work.
IGOR i was listening to an old audio cassette from the red army groups singer,they where good hey?
An Obama-supporting FB friend of mine linked to this McClatchy report on her FB wall:
Of course, my friend’s liberal friends are being riled up by the portrayal that our fave conservatives are attacking an 11 yr old kid, calling them racist right-wingers in comments.
Time for me to go poke ‘em in the eye and stir things up for their own good.
Go get-em, Smitty!!
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