Obama Repeats Whopper About Mom's Health Insurance

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The Obama Record: In a campaign infomercial, the president suggests his late mother's health insurer denied her coverage in her cancer battle. It's a heart-breaking story. Only it's not true.

About midway through the slick 17-minute video, "The Road We've Traveled," narrator Tom Hanks explains that Obama made enacting his health care reforms a top priority because "he knew from experience the cost of waiting."

"He remembered the millions of families like his who feel the pressure of rising costs and the fear of being denied or dropped from coverage," Hanks says, as photos of Obama and his late mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, appear on the screen. Dunham died in 1995 after a bout with ovarian cancer.

Then the first lady chimes in about Dunham not having "good, consistent insurance," and the president himself adds that it "drained all her resources."

"That's a tough thing to deal with — watching your mother die of something that could have been prevented," Michelle Obama says. "I don't think he wants to see anyone go through that."

The suggestion is that a heartless U.S. health insurance industry denied the president's own mother medical coverage when she needed it most. And this not only bankrupted her, but sped her death.

The heart-tugging narrative echoes what Obama said during a 2008 presidential debate: "For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they're saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don't have to pay her treatment, there's something fundamentally wrong about that."