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Obama Talks About His Mother and Daughter’s Health Issues

Written by Casey Gane-McCalla, Assistant Editor on March 26, 2009 5:11 pm

While addressing issues of health care at the town hall meeting today, Obama placed health care in a very personal perspective. Obama talked about the health of both his mother Anne Dunham and his daughter Sasha Obama.

Here’s what he had to say about his mother.

“My mother contracted ovarian cancer when she was 53 and she died six months later,She was, at the time, working as an independent contractor and so she had insurance, but when she was diagnosed and the medical bills started mounting up, this insurance company started saying, well maybe this is a preexisting condition so we don’t have to reimburse you. … We were lucky so eventually we got these costs approved.”

He also talked about his daughter, Sasha

“When Sasha, our little precious pea, she got meningitis when she was three months old, The doctors did a terrific job, but frankly, it was the nurses that were there with us when she had to get a spinal tap and all sorts of things that were just bringing me to tears. And we’ve got a problem in this country, which is we have a shortage of nurses.”

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    alot of doctors not doing they job..

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    A lot of hospitals are inundated with patients and not enough people on staff who can handle the needs of said patients. some doctors make mistakes, but keep in mind they are only humans and humans make mistakes

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    I believe that when you are in the hospital the nurses have more compassion. The doctors stick there head in every few hours and really do not talk to you they talk AT you. I understand that they have several pts but so don’t the nurses

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    I believe that when you are in the hospital the nurses have more compassion. The doctors stick there head in every few hours and really do not talk to you they talk AT you. I understand that they have several pts but so don’t the nurses. We need more school with the RN program

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