Source: The Obamafile, story below video
In case you didn't clearly hear Obama, he said, "She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt."
Obama told the crowd that the dead woman had no health insurance. What Obama didn't tell you is that the woman, Melanie Shouse, a health care activist, did in fact have insurance -- she had a catastrophic policy with a $5,000 deductible.
Four years ago, she chose not to pay for a routine exam and a mammogram, despite feeling a lump in her breast at age 37. Shouse began feeling ill. She said couldn't afford a doctor because she and her partner had just used their savings to open a business.
"When I first noticed a small lump on my breast, denial seemed the only option," Ms. Shouse told the the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, "The People's World."
Shouse actually requested that her body be cremated not buried, wearing her Obama T-shirt.
Tom McGuire has the full story here
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