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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 857669" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]Book Challenges Obama on Mother’s Deathbed Fight[/h]The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">President Obama</a>,&nbsp; in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a&nbsp; central anecdote about his mother’s deathbed dispute with her insurance&nbsp; company.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During his presidential campaign and subsequent battle over a health&nbsp; care law, Mr. Obama quieted crowds with the story of his mother’s fight&nbsp; with her insurer over whether her <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="_blank">cancer</a> was a pre-existing condition that disqualified her from coverage.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But in “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank">Barack Obama</a>’s&nbsp; Mother,” author Janny Scott quotes from correspondence from the&nbsp; president’s mother to assert that the 1995 dispute concerned a Cigna&nbsp; disability insurance policy and that her actual health insurer had&nbsp; apparently reimbursed most of her medical expenses without argument.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; In her book, published in May by Riverhead Books, Ms. Scott writes that&nbsp; Mr. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had an employer-provided <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" target="_blank">health insurance</a> policy that paid her hospital bills directly, leaving her “to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses.The book concludes that although Mr. Obama often suggested that Ms.&nbsp; Dunham “was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition,&nbsp; it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability&nbsp; coverage.”Ms. Scott took a leave from her job as a reporter for The New York Times to write the book.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/us/politics/14mother.html?_r=1&amp;partner=MYWAY&amp;ei=5065" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/us/politics/14mother.html?_r=1&amp;partner=MYWAY&amp;ei=5065</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 857669, member: 12952"] [h=1]Book Challenges Obama on Mother’s Deathbed Fight[/h]The White House on Wednesday declined to challenge an account in a new book that suggests that [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per"]President Obama[/URL], in his campaign to overhaul American health care, mischaracterized a central anecdote about his mother’s deathbed dispute with her insurance company. During his presidential campaign and subsequent battle over a health care law, Mr. Obama quieted crowds with the story of his mother’s fight with her insurer over whether her [URL="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier"]cancer[/URL] was a pre-existing condition that disqualified her from coverage. But in “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per"]Barack Obama[/URL]’s Mother,” author Janny Scott quotes from correspondence from the president’s mother to assert 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. In her book, published in May by Riverhead Books, Ms. Scott writes that Mr. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, had an employer-provided [URL="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"]health insurance[/URL] policy that paid her hospital bills directly, leaving her “to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses. The book concludes that although Mr. Obama often suggested that Ms. Dunham “was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition, it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage.” Ms. Scott took a leave from her job as a reporter for The New York Times to write the book. [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/us/politics/14mother.html?_r=1&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065[/url] [/QUOTE]

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