“ Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly leaving Ann only to pay the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which she said claimed to be several hundred dollars a month. Scott Wright said Dunham, who wanted to be compensated for those costs as well as for her living expenses. She filed a separate claim under her employer’s disability insurance policy. It was that claim with the insurance company Cigna that was declined in August 1995 because as Cigna investigators said, her condition was known before she was covered by the policy. Dunham protested the decision and informed Cigna that she was turning the case over to my son, an attorney, Barack Obama. Cigna did not budge,” Glenn continued.
“September 1995 Dunham traveled to New York for an evaluation at renowned Memorial Sloan‑Kettering. She returned to Hawaii, began a new course of treatment. She died in November. A dozen years later her son turned ordeal into a campaign pitch for national healthcare. But the story Obama told Scott Wright was abbreviated. The abbreviation was to leave out the fact that she had health insurance and it paid for her treatment. Though he often suggested that she was denied health coverage because of a preexisting condition. It appears from her correspondence in her own writing that she was only denied disability coverage. That’s a different story altogether but one that nobody in the press seems to care.”