Today, CNN ran a story about how people die from not having health insurance. For starters, that’s usually a personal choice. Here in Indiana for example you have Hoosier Healthwise for kids, and the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) for adults. Both are very low cost subsidized plans. Participants in HIP pay between 2% and 5% of their gross family income. Most states have similar programs.
Here’s how CNN spins Obama’s lies. Yes, he’s a liar.
For years, Paul Hannum didn’t have health insurance while he worked as a freelance cameraman in southern California.
One Sunday, Hannum complained of a stomachache which alarmed his pregnant fiancée, Sarah Percy. “He wasn’t a complainer,” she said. “He’s the type of guy who, if he got a cold, he’ll power through it. I never had known him to complain about anything.”
Hannum thought he had a stomach flu or food poisoning from bad chicken. On Monday, his brother saw him looking ashen and urged him to go to the hospital. “He had a little girl on the way,” his older brother Curtis Hannum said. “He didn’t want the added burden of an ER visit to hang on their finances. He thought ‘I’ll just wait,’ and he got worse and worse.”
By the time Hannum got to the hospital and was admitted to surgery, it was too late.
Liars!
He had appendicitis and it killed him. My prayers go out to his fiancée and daughter. I did the same thing a few years ago thinking I had food poisoning, and they said had I waited much longer, I would have been dead.
But there’s more. Paul was not in control over the ultimate decision that killed him, and CNN conveniently left that out. Below is from a blog ran by Kristen Marie Hannum, his sister.
Tuesday at dawn, he and Sarah finally went in to the nearby UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. Classic appendicitis. But when they gave him a CAT-scan the doctor decided that maybe it was diverticulitis. So even though he’d been vomiting for two days, they sent him home with antibiotics he couldn’t keep down and advice to follow up at the county hospital, in a far-away and unfamiliar part of town.
Standard procedure, we’ve been told, would have been to admit Paul, since diverticulitis and appendicitis are so easily misdiagnosed for one another, and because that mistake can be deadly.
Sarah brought Paul back to the Santa Monica medical center Tuesday night. They gave him another CAT-scan and talked some more about transferring him to county. They didn’t, however, compare the two cat scans, which showed a dramatic and frightening disintegration of Paul’s condition.
Paul finally went into surgery Wednesday morning. His ruptured appendix was the worst the surgeon had ever seen.
Paul died at age 45 a little after midnight, August 3, 2006.
From what I’ve read about Paul, he was a nice guy. He made sure his pregnant fiancée and their baby were covered. Given his successful career, I really don’t understand why he wasn’t covered.
If CNN wants to play the “I can’t afford insurance” card and it killed me, they picked the wrong person. He was sent home. Had they operated immediately, he’d most likely be alive now.
Those in the poker community who may be unfamiliar with the name Paul Hannum have most likely been exposed to his work. Hannum was the gregarious and ever-accommodating man behind the lens of the World Poker Tour. As the cameraman and official photographer since its inception, he played an important role in bringing the WPT into millions of homes over cable television’s The Travel Channel. In Hollywood, Hannum was popular among independent film makers as an aspiring producer, short filmmaker and writer.
Born in Denver in 1961, Paul attended Thomas Jefferson High School before attending the University of Colorado, from which he graduated in 1983. He and his brother, Curtis, moved to Los Angeles in 1990, where Paul performed comedy and appeared as an actor in movies such as “On the Edge” and “Jerry Maguire.” They traveled the world, while collaborating on several short films, and in 2005, “The Real Old Testament,” a spoof of MTV’s “The Real World” set in biblical times, won the audience award for best feature at the Boulder International Film Festival. In addition to coproducing and codirecting the film, Paul played “Snake” alongside his brother’s God character.
CNN also flat-out lied about the story, twisting it to Obama’s benefit.
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Dan…. Oh how I remember that……you were at Lake Tippy and your friends and neighbors were looking after you!!!! I remember you saying how close you were to death.
Anyone that knows you can certainly remember that summer….What would we do without AWB????
You are the ones that lie Abaut the War , you asshole Republican ,you are achting like Hitler , you are nothing but terroist( republican Party ) you SOB allways ben RACIST .an you wounder wy Europe dont want nothing to do with you . i was a little Girl in Germany .when you bomb us with everything you had . thats my Memory s off my Child Hood .thanks to a Hatefull Party ,like the REPUBLICAN
all you Natzi Republcan schut the Hell up . go back to School . so you learn how to respecht auer President .
This was clearly a personal decision not to get medical care even people who have health insurance make the same mistakes. CNN just makes stuff up to promote anything Obama. It’s just getting ridicules! Who even watches CNN anyway?
Trudy, i’m sorry we ruind your childhood, Maybe if the people of germany would have not acted like morons and let hitler do the crap he did we would not have lost all the soilders we did fixing what the dumbass germans should have done on there own. Just be happy you don’t have slanty eyes or we would have nuked you to.
The republicans are acting like hitler?
Now i hate the hitler refeances everytime some one does not like what the other party is doing, but come on. Nationalizing industry, a health plan that will not take care of those who have nothing to contribute, control of the media, dirct communication with the children, i think we can assume you know who did all those things.
And last
We don’t understand why europe don’t like us?
That would be wrong. We just don’t care. Europe has got to be one of the dumbest groups of people in the history of world and germany followed by france are the leaders of the stupidity.
Trudy, how old are you? A little old I think to be going off on a tirade on a site obviously meant for people with a far better education than you have ever had in your life. I as a Jew can tell you exactly which party is acting out the role of Nazi here. Given the extensive history lessons and independent study I have done concerning Germany with the hope that we never repeat the same mistakes here in America I can tell you honestly that your country magnificent as it is today and currently a devoted ally was in the wrong in her history and was set straight in a harsh way. My people should not ever feel apologetic towards a past enemy. We hope for and have so far attained a better relationship with the Germany of today. I have several German friends who live near Frankfurt and they tell me how much having our military stations there provides for their economy and well being. Our current President is not who he seems to be and his current connections show all too well who he truly is. So your childhood stunk on ice, considering you were probably a member of the Hitler Youth I could not reasonably be seen to give a damn how you and your country rightfully suffered through those decades before becoming a more respectable and more civilized nation. You Trudy are merely the echo of what used to be an evil and abrasive nation.
Trudy the President at that time was Harry S Truman, a fine Democrat (note sarcasm). So a dem drops bombs on your butt and your yelling at Republicans. Maybe you need to check your history books again.
Oh no you even go back to 1944 and you have FDR in office, definitely not a Republican Trudy, your playing for the wrong team!
Uh, Trudy, WWII was under the auspices of DEMOCRAT president Roosevelt
WWI was declared by DEMOCRAT president Wilson
The Korean War was initiated by DEMOCRAT president Truman
Now I will concede the Vietnam War was initiated by republican Eisenhower, but it was horribly FUBAR’ed by DEMOCRAT president Johnson
Now, tell us some more about the bad old republicans…
John,
You forgot to mention Reagan’s Grenada escapade. There had to have been at least a dozen people killed in that one. Oh, and there was also Libya, where his missile strike missed quadaffi but killed his daughter. So, let’s see, that’s thirteen killed by the bloody, warmongering Republicans, so don’t try to put it all on the Dem’s.