Tuesday, April 19, 2011

What is the name of the woman who recently spoke to Congress about her health insurance dropping her?

I think she has cancer and her insurance dropped her before her lifesaving surgery because it would be expensive. Are there any websites where I can get more information about this?
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I think you are talking about Debbie Smith. Debby Smith, however, is no ordinary patient. While she may be "unemployed," she has been rather busy working for the Obama campaign – as a volunteer for Organizing for America. It's the old Obama for Change political machine now housed under the Democratic National Committee. Smith has also identified herself as a worker for the Virginia Organizing Project, http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/… which has been coordinating lobbying trips and health care forums with HCAN. (( D.C.-based Health Care for America -- the one with a $40 million budget to lobby for government-run health care. The one inextricably linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros.)) In December, Smith moderated a "a community discussion on health care issues" in Appalachia, Virginia and told her local paper that the meeting "would be reported back to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who has been directed by President Elect Barack Obama to form a committee to report on health care issues." http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:FGAY… Daschle may be out of the spotlight since his Health and Human Services cabinet nomination fiasco. But he is in constant contact with Team Obama. As he told the Associated Press earlier this week in a media meeting on health care reform: "We interact with them daily." No doubt. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti… Obama health care "town hall's" climactic moment came when the consoler-in-chief plucked Debby Smith from the crowd to tell her personal health care horror story. She choked back tears as she talked of her battle with kidney cancer, her joblessness, and her lack of insurance. Obama hugged the trembling woman and dubbed her "Exhibit A" for his massive entitlement program. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_o… The White House sure likes to put on a show. Fresh off its joint stage production with ABC News, the Obama administration broadcast another health care propaganda play this week under the guise of a citizen "town hall." http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Full-Vide… Obama's town hall was filled with backroom players and a supporting cast of socialized medicine activists and ideologues. One of the three lucky audience members whom Obama chose for questioning was Jason Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum works for the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care for America Now (HCAN). Who else miraculously drew a golden ticket. Another one of the three, softball-tossing citizen questioners at the White House forum identified herself as a member of the Service Employees International Union. That's the same SEIU whose president, Andy Stern, boasted of spending nearly $61 million in members' dues to elect Barack Obama. It's the same union that produced Patrick Gaspard, former SEIU health care lobbyist and now White House director of the office of political affairs. http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/… The LA Times follows the crony money trail at the Obama-promoting SEIU — where every top official's family member Hopes for a cut of the Change. o_O http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/26/…
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