You decide.  Fresh doubt cast on Obama’s health care story.

Scott, who had access to Dunham’s correspondence from the time, reveals that Dunham unquestionably had health coverage. “Ann’s compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance, which covered most of the costs of her medical treatment,” Scott writes. “Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month.”

Scott writes that Dunham, who wanted to be compensated for those costs as well as for her living expenses, “filed a separate claim under her employer’s disability insurance policy.” It was that claim, with the insurance company CIGNA, that was denied in August 1995 because, CIGNA investigators said, Dunham’s condition was known before she was covered by the policy.

The term is called pre existing.

Dunham protested the decision and, Scott writes, “informed CIGNA that she was turning over the case to ‘my son and attorney, Barack Obama.’ ” CIGNA did not budge.

Uhm, apparently his mommy didn’t understand how deductibles worked either.

A dozen years later, her son turned her ordeal into a campaign pitch for national health care. But the story Obama told, Scott writes, was “abbreviated” — the abbreviation was to leave out the fact that Ann Dunham had health insurance that paid for her treatment. “Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition,” Scott writes, “it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage.”

I’m sorry, I should not laugh.  The fact that this man generated a story about how his mommy was denied coverage is not really funny.  It is sickening.  Barack, the rest of us understand that health insurance is supposed to help with medical expenses, it is not supposed to pay for everything.  Unicorns, sheesh.
And another thing, why wasn’t Barack involved in his mum’s care?  I guess she was only good for the story.
…in 1994 Dunham took a job with an American company called Development Alternatives, which had a contract with the Indonesian State Ministry for the Role of Women. Dunham returned to Jakarta to work, and Scott reports the job provided Dunham with health insurance, a housing allowance, and a car.
Hmm, health insurance, housing allowance and a car?   Sounds like someone got very used to the “entitlement” mentality.  I know I sound terribly snippy, but I have NEVER used my health insurance benefits, yet I pay horrific monthly premiums.  Why?  The insurance agent told be that I had to help cover those that didn’t have any coverage.   Dunham and Barack can cry me a river.


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