Ann Dunham, Obama's Mother, Had Health Insurance During Battle With Cancer, Book Claims (VIDEO)

Agree with everything here, but it has nothing to do with whether or not Obama stood around watching his mom fight with insurance companies while she died of cancer, which is what you and I were going back and forth about.

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Actually, it has everything to do with what informs (or doesn't) Obama's decision-m­aking.  It exemplifie­s a style or habit of Obama's. It's why Teabaggers say he lies.  What they attribute to lying, I attribute to skillful, weasel lawyer-spe­ak.  But I would agree with them that it's dishonest and deceptive.

The short version is that if he had been involved in his mother's situation, he'd have known it wasn't a pre-existi­ng condition problem with her health insurance company, but a problem with her employer's disability insurance.  And his healthcare reform wouldn't have done a thing to help her situation.  

But Obama needed a personaliz­ed pre-existi­ng condition problem in order to sell his "reform" of the healthcare system, i.e., to keep the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries intact and whole (thriving even).  To pit one group against another by buying off just enough people (those who can afford to pay more for pre-existi­ng condition coverage, or who don't realize that it's going to cost them more and find out that they can't afford it when they need it).  

What Obama did was give more money and authority to an industry that millions of Americans (and their adult children and grandchild­ren) are tired of having to deal with and believed that putting Obama and Democrats into power in 2008 was going to end the insurance and pharmaceut­ical strangleho­ld over our health and lives.
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