Sounds like Hillary Clinton has a story in her latest stump speech that is not exactly true:
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,†said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
When people make up stories like this it seems to distract from the real problem. Like in this case it makes it seems like people are routinely being turned away in emergency situations, in reality that is not what happens. Most people can get treatment when they have an emergency, like Bush said “poor people have the emergency room”. the problem comes when you try to get preventative treatment or when you are forced into bancruptcy due to medical bills from your trip to the emergency room. Or in the case of people with insurance some of the unneeded or ineffective treatment they are given by doctors trying to make a quick buck.
Hillary by trying to dramatize health care seems to just be muddying the water without examining the real problem.
The article can be seen here