Pic: President Obama Consoles Woman Whose Uninsured Sister Died Of Colon

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Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

President Obama Consoles Woman Whose Uninsured Sister Died Of Colon Cancer

President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer.

The sister of Stephanie Miller, from Sandusky, OH, would have been covered if Obamacare were fully implemented when she got sick. Instead, the woman was left without insurance and couldn’t get the health care she needed. According to a report from the event, President Obama offered Miller his condolences:

As the president was working the rope line, he consoled a crying woman who was telling him a story. Pool reached the woman, Stephanie Miller, by phone and got these details.

Ms. Miller said her sister, Kelly Hines, died from colon cancer four years ago because she could not afford proper health insurance. She had no employer-provided coverage



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/07/05/511666/president-obama-consoles-woman-whose-uninsured-sister-died-of-colon-cancer/

[monmouth]

1. Mitt and his cabal will never have enough money to buy a soul-wrenching photo like that..n/t

[soccer1]

5. Well said......

Barack Obama is a wonderful person.....he really cares, truly cares, about those who are "hurting". He relates well to people of all backgrounds and circumstances. Michelle Obama is cut from the same cloth. I deeply admire both of them.

[DWinNJ]

16. As is Biden n/t

[soccer1]

32. Yes, Joe and Jill Biden.....compassionate people, as well.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. True, but what he can get

is a hysterical crazy lady in a wheelchair wondering why he isn't as angry as she is that Obama took away her freedom.

[SunsetDreams]

23. Maybe I'm tired

but I don't understand your comment. Obama took away her freedom? Freedom to do what?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. That's the mystery.

I has something to do with health care and him being a black Muslim tyrant.

I guess she figures he's gonna rule over and then convert the boils on her inner thighs.

[SunsetDreams]

35. LOL

[DCKit]

26. Maybe he should take credit for getting them all those Rascal scooters.

They'd be so conflicted, little pointy heads exploding everywhere.

They thrive on anger, such a shame.

[onethatcares]

28. mitt and his cabal could never

understand the grief this woman is sharing, nor could they understand the compassion our POTUS is extending.

Gaud, he's a fine man.

[SDjack]

2. A national quilt ???

Maybe we need a quilt of names of those who have died because of stalling and not improving the PP ACA. These deaths are a disgrace that should be hung around the necks of McConnelly and Boehner.

[ailsagirl]

3. AMEN

Not that they would care...

[SalviaBlue]

19. My sister's name would be on it.

She died one year ago. She had cancer diagnosed at the ER. Then she was "treated" by the County health department. It was five months before she received a chemo treatment. It was too late.

She was 54.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

29. So sorry for the loss of your sister

It is so sad that she died at 54 and did not receive the care she needed in time to help her. Let us hope that someday situations such as hers do not occur in this country.

[SalviaBlue]

33. Thanks, that's my hope too.

[Siwsan]

4. You can feel that woman's pain, just by looking at the photo

What happened to her sister is beyond inexcusable.

[freshwest]

6. Got me crying...

[calimary]

10. Yeah, me too. Without even reading what was written. Just the picture alone did it.

And just a glance at it was all it took.

[freshwest]

18. Yeah, it felt like it was me there. This is what people need to see, Empathy. Despite what Beck said

[calimary]

36. Beck would easily qualify for one of my mom's favorite disses: "heart like a BB."

As would all those "lovely," "moral," "more Christian than thou" types who sneer at the very idea of empathy. They laugh and scorn and deride, and regard it as a sign of weakness. Ruled by their simplistic predatory lizard brains, I guess.

[PragmaticLiberal]

7. Click on the link and go down to the facebook comments section.

Stephanie Miller actually posts about this story.

[treestar]

38. Couple of idiots on that thread:

Read the Story you moron! It was the Government that turned down Medicaid because she made too much money! The Government allowed this woman to die!

Duh that was the problem. People who were in the gap between Medicaid eligible and having insurance.

[FarLeftFist]

8. Jeez, no wonder he needed a beer tonight. So sad.

[NNN0LHI]

9. People don't think about this kind of stuff when they are criticizing the President

They think it is all fun and games.

As we can see here it is not.



Don

[SunSeeker]

15. Yes, and that applies to Obama's critics on this site as well.

I recently tried to reason with a critic of the ACA on this site by repeatedly pointing out the lives it would save. They insisted it was a "minor political victory for a small group" and "not worth giving the 1%" the "the keys to the ranch" by way of the mandate.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=899538

That anyone, especially a progressive, can think the ACA was "not worth it" just blows my mind. It makes me really sad for our country. Sometimes it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall...even on this site.

[DCKit]

27. But you're not (talking to a brick wall).

More of us get than don't. We'll just have to drag them along, kicking and screaming all the way. It'll be worth it.

[freshwest]

37. +1.000 And look at all those red states refusing to expand Medicaid. Pro-Life? Try again...

[PatSeg]

11. Choked me up just looking at the picture

[MsPithy]

12. Minority leader McConnell speaks for the whole Republican Party when he said

the 30 million uninsured, are NOT THE ISSUE."

Americans who lost a family member because they died from not having insurance, need to make commercials holding a picture of their loved one. They need to ask that rat bastard mcconnell to explain how the loss of a valued and loved human being, so the blood-sucking INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN MAKE MORE PROFIT, is an American value.

Pretty angry, here.

[one_voice]

13. This has nothing to do with being president...

this has to do with what kind of MAN he is. Other than Bill Clinton, I can't think of another President that would let some strange woman blubber and snot all over them like this. This is goes to character.

Yes I know he's running for a second term, but you just can't turn this kind of shit on and off.

[snacker]

14. What a heartwrenching story...

unfortunately, there are too many of these stories in America. I am thankful to have a President who understands, cares, and has taken action to help put an end to stories like these.

[DearAbby]

20. BE prepared...the Right wing idiots are on the attack

be prepared for another Sandra Fluke event.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Just Wow. Gave me the chills. That's my man !! nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. The Prez and First Lady are just the best huggers.

[cap]

30. You can tell that from

The wrinkles in his shirt and the muscles in his back that he is giving her a huge hug.

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. That just can't be faked. And that's his appeal for many of us.

[SunsetDreams]

24. What a touching story K&R

[demosincebirth]

31. One of the many. Sad.