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

“For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existi­ng condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamenta­lly wrong about that.”

Barack Obama was 35 years old when his mother died.  He was a lawyer and teaching at the University of Chicago.  He'd been married to Michelle (a practicing attorney) for 3 years at that point, and had not yet had children (their eldest, Malia, wouldn't be born for another 3 years).  

Why was his hospitaliz­ed dying mother the one arguing with insurance companies?

In the past twenty years, most middle class Americans have had to advocate on behalf of sick and terminally ill parents and grandparen­ts in their battles with their insurance companies.  It's what has helped inform our opinion and demands for healthcare reform, beginning with getting insurance companies out of the role of gatekeeper to medical treatment.  A sick and dying Ann Dunham had two adult children (one of whom was a lawyer married to a lawyer) who stood around in her hospital room while she argued with an insurance company on the phone.  
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