Gateway Pundit gives you the facts that Obama leaves out of his speeches.
Excerpt:
Robin Beaton’s insurance company retroactively canceled her policy because she had failed to inform them of her history of acne and a rapid heartbeat.
In 2009, Barack Obama included the story of a Waxahachie woman’s breast cancer nightmare in his speech to Congress. Obama said the evil insurance company canceled her policy for failing to report a pre-existing condition: acne. As it turned out, Robin Beaton’s insurance company retroactively canceled her policy because she had failed to inform them of her history of acne and a rapid heartbeat. Obama forgot to mention this in his talk.
And another one:
Obama found another victim to report on in his State of the Union Address.
I’m not willing to tell James Howard, a brain cancer patient from Texas, that his treatment might not be covered.
But, as it turns out, Barack Obama forgot to mention a few things about Mr. Howard.
When James Howard was diagnosed with brain cancer in March he did not know how he would pay for radiation treatments costing $87,000 and $2,300 a week for chemotherapy.
At the time of his diagnosis, Howard was insured by UnitedHealth Group Inc, a policy for which he paid because his employer, Hennessey Performance near Houston, Texas, did not provide healthcare insurance for its employees.
After his diagnosis, UnitedHealth revoked Howard’s policy on the grounds that his was a pre-existing condition.
UnitedHealth said on Friday that Howard had failed to disclose an earlier initial diagnosis suggesting potential cancer from brain scans before he applied for coverage.
Of course, Obama forgot to mention this, too.
Oh, but I am sure the mainstream media will tell everyone the facts.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Wintery, I’m calling your bluff on these examples and I have a powerful reason to do it. I actually wrote the intake forms, all the other forms that people applying for health insurance fill out, as well as a substantial amount of other info for one of the nation’s largest health insurers’ web sites.
I asked a lot of questions in the process of writing these forms, the FAQs, the descriptions of various plans. So I have intimate knowledge of how the process is supposed to work, and how it works is it’s designed to reject the maximum number of people–and you don’t. I can’t tell you how many questions I asked to make sure what I was hearing the marketing guy tell me was in fact what he was telling me, because it confirmed all my worst fears about health insurers. But it was correct. And for many of the questions, I kept saying to the marketing guy, “You’re kidding. They can do that?” or “They can ask you that?” or “They can turn you down because of that?” And the answer was repeatedly, yes they can, they do, and yes, they are trying to weed out as many people as they can. For some pretty stupid, petty, small reasons and it’s all legit industry practice.
I know you have a stake in acting as if the president is lying to everyone, but as someone who’s been on the inside of one of these places at the intake/application level, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
By all means, be against healthcare because you don’t like being told what to do, but don’t be against it because of denying people coverage. Because denying people coverage for the most mundane stupid reasons is how they make money. And I’m not saying that because I think this is how they are. I say it because I KNOW.
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I think the point here is that the “denial of coverage” complaint is usually a smoke screen for legitimate rejections. By legitimate, I mean reasons that are not necessarily hidden, but part of the routine that some try to avoid or get around. Fraud constitutes a sizable percentage of insurance costs. To scrutinize to what seems to us to be extreme lengths may not be as simple as squeezing bucks out of customers.
Just sayin’.
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That’s not what I’m talking about, Marshall.
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