Obama Will Say Anything To Get Health Care Reform

President Obama pauses for applause as he delivers a speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, Sept., 9, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

President Barack Obama will say anything to get his health care plan passed, even if it means lying about the death of an Illinois man.

"More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care," the president told a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9. "It happens every day. One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it."

Lie.

Obama was talking about Otto S. Raddatz. Mr. Raddatz's treatment was indeed delayed by his insurance company. However, he eventually had the surgery and it extended his life by 3.5 years. Mr. Raddatz died earlier this year waiting for a second surgery that did not take place because the donor became sick at the last moment and his surgery was delayed.

Clearly, the insurance company had nothing to do with Mr. Raddatz's death. But that didn't stop Obama from telling the Congress and the world that it did.

Good thing for Obama that he didn't take an oath before his speech or he would have perjured himself.

Obama lies and the Congress punishes U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson for pointing it out. Something just does not seem right.