Obama: St. Louis Campaign Supporter Died of Breast Cancer – Says She Couldn't Afford Exam – But Breast Exams Are Free to Poor in St. Louis (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, February 6, 2010, 7:54 AM
Unreal. There really is nothing they won’t do or say to get this nationalized health care bill rammed through Congress.
Obama says a St. Louis supporter who died of breast cancer because she didn’t have insurance and put off having the kind of exams that she needed. Obama said she will be buried in an Obama T-shirt.
Even the audience laughed at this story – But not Obama:
It’s just too bad this woman didn’t call St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Louis. They offer free breast exams to women who are in need of assistance.
I suppose that’s Bush’s fault, too.
UPDATE: Donna found this out on the deceased woman who was buried in the Obama t-shirt. I suspect there is more to this story than is reported here.
“Melanie had health insurance coverage. Sort of. Back in 2005 she was an entrepreneur struggling to grow her small business. She could only afford a catastrophic health insurance policy with co-pays and deductibles nearing $10,000.
So when the lump came, denial seemed the most pragmatic option. When diagnosis finally followed, the cancer had spread through her body to bone, lungs and liver. It was Stage 4 breast cancer.
At this point, Melanie had some coverage, in the form of Missouri’s Medicaid program – a public option, if you will. And she got better, for a spell. But then her private carrier denied coverage for a treatment her oncologist had recommended. She appealed, to no avail.”
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JustSayNObama commented:
He’s lookin’ pretty desperate…
DomesticGoddess commented:
People actually thought it was a joke and laughed at the punch line. Hussein looked so startled when they laughed, because he takes his adulation seriously. BTW – the woman had insurance, but she didn’t want to pay the $5,000 deductible.
ar05075 commented:
He is hopelessly embarrassing.
Kitty commented:
Bad news for The Won when he can’t bring his choir to tears with a good she’ll-be-buried-in-her-Obama-t-shirt story.
Eric Lindholm commented:
Why does every speech he make require some self-congratulatory statement? Is he really this insecure?
HarryPrimate commented:
He is totally shameless, it’s disgraceful.
jim commented:
She should have run down to the local ACORN office where they would have told her how to get some Obama Money and all sorts of other free stuff.
Now she’s one of those corpse men that the Blowhard talks about. At least she got a T-shirt.
Brad commented:
He was really taken aback by the laughter (as am I), notice how he blinks.
Even though it was another example of his extremely.. .(err… ludicrously) high self-regard, doesn’t seem like a moment to laugh.
He always quotes these sad stories as if there was no hope for her to get treatment. What is this, 1642 or something?
TaSS commented:
He got a note from a woman who passed away?
Now I am impressed.
Hallelujah!
avery commented:
If he got the health care through,she would have had to been 40 and it would have to be approved by the over sight committee “Death panel.I read the bill about a week ago i didn”t paid that must att.to the woman part i was reading mostly about people on Medicare they can kiss their ass Goodby.
NeoKong commented:
That was creepy. First he said it was a letter to him to him and then it became a note from his staff. The poor woman believed in Obama so much that she crawled from her sick bed every day to campaign for him and because Obama was such and all consuming force in her life she wants to be buried wearing an Obama t-shirt.
Who would doubt that….?
I’ll bet she even wants her headstone inscribed Barack Obama…mmmm mmmmm mmmm”. Maybe her family can find those school kids who sang the Obama song to come sing at her funeral. It would be a nice touch
bg commented:
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it’s all about Obamaology..
presidential announcement
woman buried in an O-T = good
commercial
Tebow not aborted = bad
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Bill Mitchell commented:
I am just curious as to what kind of car she drove and how many big screen TV’s she had in her house?
My guess is she didn’t choose to sacrifice on goodies to buy something as mundane as health insurance. The reason she didn’t apply for the “free” breast exam was that she didn’t qualify financially.
avery commented:
Who is this woman, what is her name, there does she,When was she bury.He all way come up with a sad story when he trying to pass a far left agenda.but alway leave out detail. “state of the union address” when he said he said he has to pass Climate change everone Laugh like no ones has told him it was all FAKE.
bg commented:
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re: bg #12
this reminds me of the same illogical ‘Reeves would get up out of
his wheel-chair & walk’ re: embryonic stem cell research spiel..
like this poor woman wouldn’t be dead &
buried if Obama care was enacted.. *sigh*
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F/Libs commented:
…..buried in an Obama T-shirt!
Libs?, I WILL PAY FOR THE DAMN T-SHIRTS!!
…….Pleasessssssssssssssss!!
TaSS commented:
First of all, with busy schedules, I know many women that delay going to the doctor.
Not good.
Women have to learn how to make time and take care of themselves. In this era of trying to have it all, sometimes our own selves fall through the cracks.
Second of all, they didn’t say what kind of treatment was denied? Right now, if your private insurance denies treatment you have recourse to appeal through the federal licensing board which oversees insurance private insurance companies.
Who are you going to appeal to if the government denies your treatment?
The article states that she was on a Medicaid program, “the government option,” if you will but her private insurance denied treatment?
Which is it?
I have someone close to me who recently battled breast cancer in NY and what we said through the whole ordeal was “Thank God,” we have the doctors and the treatments available to us here in NY. She didn’t wait when she found the lump. She didn’t have to wait to see a doctor or get a second opinion and she didn’t have to wait for surgery or reconstruction.
Compare US survival rates to the survival rates in other countries.
bg commented:
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language warning: foul but funny..
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jim commented:
Shameless. Dangerously delusional.
And historic: the most unqualified person ever elected president.
bg commented:
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how does the following t-force square with your spiel Obama??
Breast Exam Guidelines Test Obama Cost-Cutting
[The new guidelines would reduce annual mammograms by more than half under a “worst-case scenario,” said Junaid Husain, a Boston-based analyst at Soleil Securities, in a note to investors Nov. 17. Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican of Kansas, said the task force’s recommendations represent the start of an Obama administration plan to ration health care to pay for its overhaul.]
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JonahVark commented:
My heart goes out to this woman and her friends and family. It is sad that she didn’t seek help sooner. Early detection is key to proper diagnosis and treatment.
“So when the lump came, denial seemed the most pragmatic option. When diagnosis finally followed, the cancer had spread through her body to bone, lungs and liver. It was Stage 4 breast cancer.”
I find it appalling that Obama is politicizing her untimely death to admonish those who oppose his oppressive health care bill.
PJ commented:
I’m very sorry for her, especially since I am a cancer survivor.
However, once you are at Stage 4 and terminal, most treatments are considered experimental. They are very expensive. Does anyone think government health care is going to pay for bone marrow transplants or experimental treatments for someone who is terminal???
Militant Conservative commented:
Don’t anyone panick!!!! I have this on firm authority that the woman in question will still be able to vote.
Did I not tell you this was how to get under his skin !
Laugh at the little insignificant man child. LOL
BigAlSouth commented:
So last year they drag out Teddy’s corpse to shill for ObamaCare and it fails. I guess Teddy had too many faults, too many drunken episodes and all that baggage from leaving a young staffer in his car to drown while seeking cover politically. Someone gets the bright idea: Hey! Let’s use this everywoman who so loved The Anointed One that she wants to be buried in an Obama T-shirt because of greedy Health Care Conglomerates. Surely the gullible Obamabots will not look into the facts of her healthcare situation. Jim Jones preachin Kool-aid to the Choir.
Corporal Vere commented:
IF THEN: If USA health is so horrid, why is the Canadian Premier coming to the USA for surgery? Is it closer than Toronto????
The Zero approval rating is back down at 44%.
How can 44% of the people be so stupid? Oh, the government feeds them?
Definitons:
Recession: Your neighbor gets fired.
Depression: You are out get fired.
Recovery: Barack gets fired.
bg commented:
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apologies, debated whether or not to post
& decided yes, if i get flack for it, so be it..
PJ @ 9:46 am #22
re: [Does anyone think government health care is going to pay for bone marrow transplants or experimental treatments for someone who is terminal???]
sarc on/
no, but i’m sure Obama T’s will be
available @ local funeral parlors..
/sarc off
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Militant Conservative commented:
bg, no offense taken. There is a level of death that this WH is comfortable with as long as they get thier agenda passed. Just like other great dictators in history.
KR commented:
“Does anyone think government health care is going to pay for bone marrow transplants or experimental treatments for someone who is terminal???” -PJ
Exactly. The gov. will ask if the can send DR. Kevorkian over, like in Oregon.
nobama commented:
Any woman can get free mamogram at least in St Louis Area if not in Mo all she had to do is ask. I have to wonder if this story is true at all. Susan B Komen Group helps these people get them free.
Sam Damon commented:
Pathetic. The alleged post-partisan President is the biggest liar and divider to ever disgrace the White House.
pst314 commented:
“with busy schedules, I know many women that delay going to the doctor.”
Many men do the same thing. That isn’t a woman thing, it’s a people thing.
Dwayne "the canoe guy" commented:
Reading some other information on this woman I have learned that she was diagnosed 4.5 years ago when she was roughly 37. I don’t think Government health care would have provided mammograms for someone that young.
Also, she was cremated, not buried (but how was Obama to know? He just reads what’s there)
If people want to blame anyone for this woman’s death they should look at the Democrats who had a majority in both houses and almost a full year to pass the number one item on their agenda and couldn’t get their act together and do it. (There is no one to blame for this woman’s death because any health care plan would have to have been passed 15 years ago to help save this woman since the Feds want to collect taxes for years prior to providing a service. Hmmm is it Clinton’s fault?)
Militant Conservative commented:
No jest inferred by the next statement.
Will/would Obamacare give treatment to an AIDS patient? think on that for awhile.
Remember what AIDS was called before it was AIDS?
GRIDS (Gay Related Immuno Deficency Syndrom)
PC got that on too.
bg commented:
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Dwayne “the canoe guy” @ 10:41 am #32
re: [she was cremated, not buried]
oh my!! if that’s true, wouldn’t it be fair for the
MSM to pretend Obama is Bush for 5 minutes??
oh wait, maybe that would be asking too much.. i mean “fake but accurate” reporting is so ingrained into what passes for journalism these days that, even under false pretenses, they probably couldn’t handle telling the truth.. *sigh*
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CoolCzech commented:
So in other words, this woman was too stupid too survive. She could have gotten free exams at a hospital, but was helpless to do a bit of research on the Internet – you know, spend 30 seconds Googling for “Free Breast Exam” – without someone from the government taking her by the hand and taking care of everything for her.
If this woman was a resident of New Orleans during Katrina, she would have drowned outside her home waiting for the school bus to come by and pick her up. Hell, if she was a turkey, she would drown in the rain, looking up to see where the drops were coming from.
How did that liberal columnist put it? Oh, yeah: “Too stupid to thrive.”
bg commented:
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CoolCzech @ 11:13 am #35
no no no!!
you missed the point..
sarc on/
whoever what’s her name once was matters not..
what matters is she was buried in an OBAMA T-SHIRT!!
OA rule #1:
never let a manufactured crisis go to waste..
/sarc off
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Elizabeth commented:
They just don’t seem to understand that no matter how much they jack up taxes and inflate government, they’re not going to be able to hold back death.
Obama ≠ God
Militant Conservative commented:
bg, LOL
reminds me of the joke of a young man found dead wearing fishnet hose, heels and make up and an Obama tee shirt. The cops removed the Obama tee shirt to spare the family any embarassment. LOL
Liz commented:
Geez, I actually felt sorry for the guy for a minute. Then I remember the pain he’s inflicting on my family and my country. Let him embarrass himself, maybe then we can replace him and move forward.
Militant Conservative commented:
Liz, yes it is pain but call it what it really is.
TREASON
I want him out of office before 2012 in disgrace.
Possible avenue could be his mental state.
I do not think the Prez. is stable.
bg commented:
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Militant Conservative @ 12:11 pm #40
and his VP isn’t far behind..
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bg commented:
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to the MSM re: #41
pretend that’s Bush for a minute..
thankyouverymuch..
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Militant Conservative commented:
bg, OMG
check this link out.
http://www.drirene.com/catbox/index.php?showtopic=40676
it is about the 20 traits of a malignant narcissist.
Betsy Ross commented:
I dunno, it seems that barry wasn’t expecting the audience to laugh when he mentioned that this lady was buried in an obama t-shirt….
it was just really, really freaky-deaky…weird.
sandy commented:
This poor woman was an Obama campaign worker and Obama believes that everyone should have Healthcare. Why then did he not provide Healthcare for his campaign workers? The Obama t-shirt she will be buried in will of course be provided by Obama.
TJ commented:
Can we bury all the Obama supporters in Obama Tee shirts? How’s next Wednesday sound?
sandy commented:
Betsy — Obama has this need to insert himself into everyone’s life. She remained a fan till the end. That’s the most important part of the story for him.
I WANTED HEALTHCARE TO SAVE MY LIFE BUT ALL I GOT WAS THIS STINKIN T-SHIRT.
sandy commented:
If this woman had no money she would have been eligible for Medicaid. Something is fishy about all this. If I had no money I think I would have tried to get a real job and not putz around as a Campaign Worker for Obama.
Solaratov commented:
sandy
February 6th, 2010 | 1:41 pm | #45
The Obama t-shirt she will be buried in will of course be provided by Obama.
At cost, of course. (A substantial discount for her loyal service to Teh Won.)
bg commented:
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Militant Conservative @ 12:37 pm #43
oh yeah..
and albeit i’ve called Obama by his many “given” names (ie: the ONE, the Messiah, sort of god, etc..) one of the two i’ve given him is my personal favorite..
Pontius Pilate aka: Pontificus Pielate
[Pilate is a type of the worldly man, knowing the right and anxious to do it so far as it can be done without personal sacrifice of any kind, but yielding easily to pressure from those whose interest it is that he should act otherwise.]
(the other one being an IslaMarxist,
which in reality is even more fitting..)
OT.. i’m watching/listening to a pbs special on how Arab/Islamic wars are systematically wiping Blacks & Christians off the map so to speak.. as sad and tragic as it is, what’s even worse is not only the fact that way too many people know little to nothing about what’s going, or believing it doesn’t affect them, but how little we’ve been informed about it via our supposed news media.. imo, silence condones the horrors of slavery that to this day exists in the Sudan, and that’s a just for instance.. *sigh*
SHAME ON THE UN, SHAME ON US &
SHAME ON MANKIND IN GENERAL..
(but hey, don’t forget to make sure your last will & testament
includes your being buried wearing an Obama T-Shirt.. gah!!)
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Auntie Em commented:
sandy….#47 Bwahhhahahhahaaa!!! All I got was this stinkin t-shirt!! That is hilarious!
Girl, you got a belly laugh out of me!
AuntieMadder commented:
He’s lying his way into hell.
Just_Saying commented:
Buried in an Obummer t-shirt? Shirley we can now all admit it’s a cult, and Obummer’s the biggest cult-worshipper?
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AuntieMadder commented:
You’re right, Just Saying. And stop calling me Shirley.
Just_Saying commented:
LOL, Auntie — brain freeze, sorry.
(Maybe the new term is “Obummer brain”…)
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Deanna commented:
Just to clarify something…it is possible to have private insurance and Medicaid . Medicaid acts as the secondary/supplemental insurance and pays what the private insurance doesn’t. Of course you still have to meet the income requirements. Sounds like that’s what this woman had, but apparently she waited too long for her original exam and treatment and whatever advanced treatment that was recommended was turned down. I’m not sure whether Medicaid would have stepped in and covered it or not.
averagemelon commented:
Obama’s little faked, emotional speech was so disturbing on so many levels, it’s outright scary. I am breath-taken that our leader would choose the ugly death via cancer of an individual to STAMP HIS NAME ON HER CHEST and try to manipulate everyone else into doing what he wants.
There is a very special corner waiting for this one in Hell. Pray for a leader, America.
Just_Saying commented:
So, did Obummer violate HIPAA (?) guidelines by publicizing all this information about Melanie? Did he have a release from Melanie?
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bg commented:
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Your con-science 11:17 pm #64
there fixed it for you..
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Aussie commented:
My mother in law died from breast cancer. We have universal health care. It did not save her life.
My late sister’s cancer, which apparently was primary bone cancer was not discovered until 6 weeks before she passed away. We have universal health care”
My cousin Peter, died within six weeks of his kidney cancer being discovered. We have universal health care.
Women under 30 can die as a result of getting an aggressive form of breast cancer.
From what I saw about this story elsewhere, it would have been wasting money for her to have had any further cancer treatment. If her body was already riddled with the cancer then it was too late.
Getting early treatment saves lives.
p.s. one of the best oncologists in Australia died as a result of having a glioma, a brain tumor that is very, very aggressive. I am sure he had more than universal health coverage, just like the parents of a three year old that died from the same brain tumor.
People die whether they have insurance or not.
Guy commented:
I’ve said it all along, and I’ll say it again … we don’t have a health care crisis in this country. Our health care system works just fine. It’s our insurance system that needs some tweaking. Like they always say … “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”…. Some minor changes to the insurance system that ensure portability and universal coverage will cost us all a little more, but I’d rather pay the money directly to the insurance companies. Letting the government get their fingers in the pie will cost us all dearly, in quality and in price.
We also have to face reality and resign ourselves to the fact that everyone has a stake in health care and everyone has to contribute to the system in one form or another. Letting millions of people who don’t or won’t contribute to the system (either through premiums or other income based credits) draw benefits simply won’t work. Making those who pay their fair share pick up the tab for illegals or any other non-contributors is Socialism, and the people of this country have made their voices clear … they won’t stand for it.
Iconoclast commented:
His game is falling apart as it becomes apparent he has only two clubs to use:
(1) The “Blame Bush Bloviater” which has lost all its drive, but still is the default from the tee for the lack of anything more powerful.
(2) The “Pitifully Disingenuous Puttzer” which moves the ball around some but rarely works as intended, perhaps because the laminated horse & bull crap which forms it is so intrinsically unstable.
Neo commented:
Since Obama inaugural, Republicans have had to face a series of “cr@p sandwiches” that they have been presented. HCR was just one more.
Besides if HCR had passed the afternoon of the Obama inaugural, Melanie Shouse would still have to wait 3 more years for the benefits part of the legislation to kick in, while her “friends,” the Democrats collected (and spent) taxes and said there was nothing they could do.
nick commented:
Just think if only Ronald Reagan would have had Obama care he may still be with us.