Michelle Obama – Strawman on Health Care

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama has now fully entered the political arena on healthcare. This clearly defines here on Chemical Assault – Scorched Earth. I do believe that healthcare is a woman’s issue. It will be interesting to critically analyze the accountability for the health and environmental disaster that is being hoisted on the HUMAN RACE; not just American woman and children. Obama cites a possible meningitis scare with daughter Sasha and how Barack and her were terrified. Laws and policies are created for the security of the Future’s Futures. Michelle needs cognition of reality. Power will keep the truth away only for so long. Kathy Sebelius and her now join Hillary Clinton as targets of Muchausen by Proxy Syndrome although this issue is becoming gender neutral.

By Ann Gerhart
Washington Post Staff Writer

During an appearance with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Obama linked the goal of disrupting "a status quo that is just unacceptable" and the centuries-old struggle for women's rights. Departing several times from her prepared remarks, Obama urged about 140 representatives of the health-care industry and women's groups to "mobilize like you've never mobilized before."

In the first eight months of her husband's presidency, as in the campaign, Michelle Obama has tended to her children, made community appearances and generally tried to stay within the lines of what the public sees as appropriate for a first lady. But Obama made clear Friday she sees herself as part of a sisterhood.

"In many states, insurance companies can still discriminate because of gender. And this is still shocking to me," said Obama, who was a vice president with the University of Chicago hospital system. "These are the kind of facts that still wake me up at night, that women in this country have been denied coverage because of preexisting conditions like having a C-section or having had a baby," or having been a victim of domestic violence.

Women frequently are charged more than men of the same age for the same insurance when shopping for individual policies; one study found the disparity can be as great as 48 percent. Insurance companies are regulated at the state level; only 10 states ban gender rating, and two others offer limited protection, according to a 2008 report from the National Women's Law Center.

Such practices would not be permissible under the reform proposals now under consideration.

In two years of campaigning, Obama said, she heard stories from women across the country about how costs and insurance battles were pushing families to the brink, "that they were being crushed, crushed by the current structure of our health care."

Women are disproportionately affected because they are more likely to work part time or in small businesses, jobs less likely to offer health insurance. And Obama said women are predominantly responsible for making medical appointments for their children and dealing with sick and elderly parents.

 

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