This was another sales pitch used by the king to pass so-called "healthcare reform" last year. Too bad it was only a half truth, and it was in fact disability insurance that his mother was denied:

[url]http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/fresh-doubt-cast-obamas-health-care-story[/url]

In summation:

[quote]A dozen years later, her son turned her ordeal into a campaign pitch for national health care. But the story Obama told, Scott writes, was "abbreviated" -- the abbreviation was to leave out the fact that Ann Dunham had health insurance that paid for her treatment. "Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition," Scott writes, "it appears from her correspondence that she was only denied disability coverage."

That's a different story altogether. One the president never told.[/quote]