Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance

When are Americans going to wake up in every part of the Country that this man who was elected President with no executive experience stretches the truth and continues to lie even when the lies have been outed. Where is he healthcare plan which he said was the reason for the speech to the Joint Session? We are still waiting while he goes on more boondoggles on our tax dollars. Why can't the man stay in the White House in this time of deficit spending instead of traveling around the Country like he is on the campaign trail?

If this is what you get from someone who was elected who has never held a regular job, then we had better take a harder look at anyone wanting to run for President. Problem is with the MSM who refuse to this day to investigate what the man promises and what he does. Shameful on the part of the MSM.

Wall Street Journal
September 14, 2009
Scott Harrington

To highlight abusive practices, Mr. Obama referred to an Illinois man who "lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about." The president continued: "They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it."

Although the president has used this example previously, his conclusion is contradicted by the transcript of a June 16 hearing on industry practices before the Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigation of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The deceased's sister testified that the insurer reinstated her brother's coverage following intervention by the Illinois Attorney General's Office. She testified that her brother received a prescribed stem-cell transplant within the desired three- to four-week "window of opportunity" from "one of the most renowned doctors in the whole world on the specific routine," that the procedure "was extremely successful," and that "it extended his life nearly three and a half years."

The president's second example was a Texas woman "about to get a double mastectomy

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