Obama Still Lying About Mother's Health Insurance Problem

Obama Still Lying About Mother?s Health Insurance Problem

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[Via MarkLevinShow]

Last summer,?a brief stir was caused when a book published by?New York Times reporter Janny Scott uncovered an uncomfortable fact about President Obama: He had been lying about his mother?s health insurance problems. During the 2008 campaign and throughout the subsequent debate over his signature health care legislation, the president used his mother?s experience as a cancer patient fighting to get coverage to pay for treatment for what her insurer said was a pre-existing condition as an emotional argument to sway skeptics. But as Scott discovered during the course of writing her biography of Anne Dunham,?A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama?s Mother, it turned out that her correspondence showed that ?the 1995 dispute concerned a Cigna disability insurance policy and that her actual health insurer had apparently reimbursed most of her medical expenses without argument.?

At the time the White House chose not to dispute Ms. Scott?s findings. But apparently the Obama campaign thinks the public?s memory is mighty short. As Glenn Kessler?writes today in the?Washington Post?s Fact Checker column, the president?s much ballyhooed campaign biography film ?The Road We?ve Traveled,? narrated by Tom Hanks repeats the same line that Scott debunked. Though the film?s script tries to avoid repeating the president?s false claims from 2008, as Kessler says, any reasonable person would infer from the movie that the president?s mother died because her insurance was denied.

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