All of our Presidents need to learn the buck stops with them, when in doubt don’t tell the story as a fact.
President Bush got bad information about Iraq, and did not have it triple checked.
President Obama got the information on Ms.Beaton, and did not check the facts. This is just one example of the people around our Presidents telling them what they think they want to hear instead of the facts. President Obama’s story’s about health insurance company’s canceling people have been proven inaccurate……
However we all need to give the President’s the benefit of the doubt, since they have the hardest job in the world, and are getting all their information second hand. …
Obama cites
She “was about to get a double mastectomy when her insurance company canceled her policy because she forgot to declare a case of acne,” he said in one telling
Now the truth is more complicated,
Beaton opened an antique shop after retiring as a nurse, and in December 2007 signed up for individual insurance from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas.
She says she thought nothing of a fast-heartbeat episode that had prompted an earlier doctor’s visit, and the resulting heart medication she stopped taking two years ago, and did not report that on the enrollment form.
The form asks applicants to list heart conditions and a wide variety of other conditions experienced in the past 10 years, any physician consultations in the last five years, any medication taken in the last year, and more.
Also, Beaton said in an interview, “I wrote down like five pounds less than I weighed,” joking that’s the sort of mild rounding down that many women do. She is not obese.
Now, no one should have their coverage suspended or canceled because of this, maybe at most having to pay an extra % as a penalty for failure to fill out the paper work correct. Mind you not a high % because not all of us can remember every little thing. However high enough to make people think twice about not giving the correct information on the forms.
This story ends well because Ms.Beaton did what any reasonable person would do, she did not take no for an answer, She contacted her Congressmen Rep. Joe Barton, who stepped up and went to bat for her. She was reinstated, and has had her surgery.
Now I am not saying the insurance company did the right thing by canceling, whatever happened to giving a person the benefit of the doubt? However insurance company’s are supposed to make money, but first they are to provide the best customer service they can, once accepted into the program you should not have to worry about something like this. They need to due their diligence before they agree to insure you.
In my humble opinion once they agree to cover you that should be it. While we have a moral obligation to be honest in everything we do, at times people being people make mistakes, sadly there are also those who lie for their own benefit… Which is what makes the world a lot less enjoyable then it should be….
Just ramblings from a sick mind
