THE STORY ABOUT OBAMA'S MOTHER, CANCER AND INSURANCE? NOT QUITE TRUE.

On the same day that President Obama peevishly walked out of debt-ceiling negotiations with congressional leaders, The New York Times reported that the White House had declined to challenge an account in a new book about Obama's most compelling argument for health care reform - the tale of his mother Ann Dunham's final days fighting with insurance companies about coverage for her cancer treatment.
No one who followed the 2008 presidential race could have missed the story, which Obama told more than once, of Dunham's death from uterine and ovarian cancer at age 52. As told by Obama, his mother was fighting until her last breath with an uncaring insurance company about payments for her treatment. The company wouldn't pay, Obama reported, because his mother's cancer was considered a pre-existing condition. Eliminating pre-existing conditions as an obstacle to insurance coverage was a central tenet of health care reform and the Affordable Care Act that has resulted.
"I will never forget my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final months, having to worry about whether her insurance would refuse to pay for her treatment,"

FIRST LIE: The truth is that she had full coverage on her employers private healthcare plan to pay all  medical expenses. The policy denied was a disability policy , designed to pay all other expenses other than medical expenses, that she applied for when she was already disabled. That is a pre-exising condition.

SECOND LIE: The truth is that he was not sitting at her bedside leading to her death while campaigning for offie in Illinoise and arrived in Hawaii the day after she died.