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Using .Gov Domain & Obama’s Mother, DNC Propaganda Targets Women

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  February 27th, 2012 at 07:00 PM  | 

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A reader sent the following mailer (see below) from the Democratic National Committee targeting Florida’s female population.

The DNC’s large, two-sided mailer reads like an Obama campaign piece (because it is one) and refers readers to a federal government website healthcare.gov.

Interestingly, on one side of the mailer, the DNC tells the story of how Barack Obama was motivated to pass Obamacare by the passing of his mother who, living in Jakarta, suffered from violent abdominal pain and was misdiagnosed with appendicitis.

It wasn’t until she flew home to the U.S. from Jakarta to have her appendix removed that she was properly diagnosed. Apparently, Jakarta’s doctors failed to recognize ovarian cancer. Mr. Obama’s mother, the DNC mailer explains, succumbed to the illness “a short time later.”

Oddly, by using Obama’s personal story as the foundation (and despite the fact that Obama’s mother was properly diagnosed in the U.S.), the DNC ad seems to want readers to tie the failings of Jakarta’s health system to the failings of the U.S. health care system when it states [emphasis added]:

…He carried the memory of that pain in his heart every single day when fighting for real health insurance reform.

President Obama will not stop fighting until every American has access to quality, affordable health care when they need it. The lives of millions of people facing similar challenges as his mother did depend on it.

Ironically, it was not the U.S. health care system that failed Obama’s mother but Jakarta’s doctors who misdiagnosed her illness.

Yet, the DNC mailer pushes the story to readers as though it was the U.S. health care system that caused Barack Obama’s mother to die.

They don’t call Barack Obama the Campaigner-in-Chief for nothing.

Related: Meet the SEIU Operative Running Barack Obama’s Re-Election Campaign’s Ground Game…

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  • greyeagle

    By the time a woman has pain it is too late anyway. Obamacare will ration care and has cut back on guidelines for cancer screening, so it would not have made any difference here under him.

  • throwback59

    are all part of the same entity in his mind.

  • kestrel

    I am sorry about the death of his mother, but it had nothing to do with the American healthcare system. Here’s a counter-story on Obama’s destroying the American healthcare system:

    In the run-up to the Democrats passing ObamaCare, Paul Ryan told of his own mother-in-law’s ovarian cancer, which she’d been successfuly fighting for five years with a drug that would have been denied to her under the British, socialized healthcare system. Ryan went on to say that under ObamaCare, “We’re setting up the identical same bureaucracies they have there, here. This bill explodes the deficit, it explodes the debt, and the only way to fix it is to put that kind of rationing in place. This is not what our government should be doing.”

    It’s at the one-minute mark of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR8vMq7NwV8&feature=relmfu

    One-size-fits-all rationing is ugly indeed. I knew a lifelong, UAW Democrat who became a Republican after the threat of HillaryCare, which would have denied lifesaving treatment to their very prematurely born child. The infant would have missed, by a week or two, the cutoff of being considered worthy of lifesaving treatment under HillaryCare. Instead, that child is now a healthy young adult.

    The crux of problem is that the various coverages mandated by a one-size-fits-all system will force upon us countless coverages we don’t need or want, while denying us what we would choose to have on the basis of knowing our own needs and situation. For example, a family may be tee-totalers, but by golly the government says these folks are going to have, and pay for, coverage of substance abuse treatment and counseling (mandated in some states like Michigan), and to heck with their infant child that government says is born “too” prematurely to receive lifesaving treatment.

    This is why one effective market-based reform would be to let people buy insurance across state lines. This would allow people to escape their state mandates for coverage they don’t need or want. Michiganders, for example, could by less expensive insurance through a company based in a different state that doesn’t consider every person a drug-addict-waiting-to-happen. Or something like that.

    Instead, ObamaCare is going to pile every conceivable coverage mandate onto everyone and force us all to exist on a very broad but shallow plain of care — lots of coverage for lots of low quality care.

    • renl57

      The problem with buying insurance across state lines is that HMOs (and to a lesser extent, PPOs) are incompatible with that. And yet such “managed care” is the main way that private insurers hope to hold down health care costs.

      Each HMO comes with a network of approved providers that are local to where that HMO is located. If you go to a doctor or hospital that is out of that network, either the HMO won’t pay, or else they will make you pay much higher fees and co-pays.

      I live in MA. For example, all the doctors and hospitals in Harvard-Pilgrim HMO are located in New England. How does that help someone living in Michigan? Even if they’re allowed to buy Harvard-Pilgrim insurance, they’re not going to travel to New England every time they need to see a doctor for a sore throat or something.

      Many advocates of purchasing insurance across state lines don’t even seem to realize that this is a problem.

      • Scope

        It was a system designed and pushed by Ted Kennedy, and unfortunately supported by some Republicans. Ted Kennedy always wanted the government to provide free healthcare to her citizens, or socialized medicine, but the time wasn’t yet ripe for that full government takeover back in the 70′s. He began the process by “herding” people into government “managed” care, and the process of government regulation of healthcare. Here is one article that talks about the passage of the HMO system. There are plenty more out there if you just look around. The HMO system, while certainly better than Obamacare, was the precursor to socialized medicine. HMO’s actually take healthcare freedom and choices away from patients and the doctors.

      • Repair_Man_Jack

        They limit choice rather than expanding it. The level of monopoly power they give member organizations outweighs the benefits they gain from economies of scale.

      • acat

        FTD keeps a list of every affiliated flower shop nationwide.
        800-dentist keeps a list of every dentist, nationwide.

        All those “local” HMO lists are, in part, based on HiPPA mandated records – requiring every medical practice to have an identifier and file paperwork…

        I don’t view “buying insurance across state lines” as a magic bullet, in part because the risk data is also shared across state lines … but what it will do is to reduce the organizational complexity for multi-state insurance carriers. (right now, they have to have offices and claims processing staffs in state … but it’d be cheaper to have one large claims/processing facility in Hershey, PA to handle the entire Northeast…)

        Mew

      • papayapicker

        You are correct that each HMO comes with a network of approved providers. Let’s use Blue Cross/Blue Shield as an example. One of the main reasons that Blue Cross/Blue Shield is regional (state by state) is because the states currently regulate insurance companies. In theory, under Obamacare, regulation becomes a federal issue and can cross state lines. Now, you have a “consolidated” Blue Cross/Blue Shield network. You pay a premium based on all the programs participants (just as you currently do). The major benefit is that of you live in one state and need services in another state, you have a defined HMO provider in that state. Since I was in the service, I have Tricare. I can go anywhere in the U.S. and contact my provider (Triwest) to see where I need to go for treatment.

        • scmom

          and it is accomplished world-wide through the military. If they can do it, then insurance companies can do it state-by-state.

  • raginpatriot

    The scary part is what a reelected Barry Soetero Obama will do once free of having to maintain a chimera of “moderation” to get through a final election. He’s already shown disdain for the Constitution that would have gotten a Republican President impeached (such as recess appointments when Congress wasn’t in recess and ignoring a federal judge’s orders during BP, and the extra-legal giveaways to the UAW during the automaker bailout).

    Sending out campaign literature posing as official government publications is a canary gasping as the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America” into some sort of Progressive-Fascism continues on-track.

    • renl57

      …that the GOP holds onto the House and (hopefully) makes gains in the Senate.

      The worst-case scenario is the GOP nominating a candidate who is so unpopular with Independent voters that Obama not only wins re-election handily, but his coattails enable Nancy Pelosi to take back the House.

      The way things are shaping up, preserving the GOP’s position in Congress may be more important than “going for broke” with a GOP candidate for President who speaks to the heart of the GOP and then goes down in flames with Independent voters.

  • dwscho

    Apparently, Jakarta

  • dwscho

    I meant to use the following in my previous note. My apologies.

    Interestingly, on one side of the mailer, the DNC tells the story of how Barack Obama was motivated to pass Obamacare by the passing of his mother who, living in Jakarta, suffered from violent abdominal pain and was misdiagnosed with appendicitis

  • mspector

    Obama’s commitment to socializing medicine was driven by the fact that his mother had some monstrous copay in Hawaii. Oh, right. That proved not to be true. OK, so it’s time to exploit his mother again with a different legend. Seriously, folks, the man has no shame.

  • spolson

    He has repeatedly show his indifference to his family and their welfare. Any reference to his past must be discarded because he has refused to reveal any of it accept what he chooses. A truer more believable story would be that his mother and her doctors pleaded with obama to help her and he ignored her pleas.

  • uselogic

    …. we have the current administration’s FDA now banning cancer drugs that have prolonged and saved lives – Avastin. Ostensibly because it didn’t work and actually because it costs alot. Never see that on a DNC mailer.

    PS: Funny how the same drug was approved under the previous administration in 2008.

  • rightland1111

    How many times a day, once you read the current news, do you want to just…vomit. This is such a crock of crap from him. This is the same man that had NOTHING good to say about his grandparents (who sent him through school…we THINK)…because of their color (his words…not mine).

    How he cares about his family. Is his uncle in a rehab program yet for his alcoholism? Is his auntie, who was found to be illegal also, in assisted living? Has he done anything for his brother who lives in a hut?

    Now…when Mommy is convenient, he prances out with this crap. Meanwhile…After age 70…his healthcare plan says…no more mamograms. There’s supposedly a cutoff on prostrate cancer also.
    His mother had to come to America. Well, guess what…we’re going to have to go to another country…maybe India or China to get fixed because Obamacare and its limitations won’t allow us to live.

    Thank you Sarah Palin for stating of obvious.

  • mutantone

    Their stand of separate but equal is astounding. Make them all participate in the same program and see how fast it is taken off the books.

  • macperr

    It was a lie, his mother was covered under her work insurance.
    Anything to make the dumb masses feel sorry for him, an get votes, read his book, his life, he separated himself from his mother’s white race that he hated that part of his profile.