Video: Hillary Repeatedly Tells False Health Care Horror Story
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
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Bold faced fucking liars, time after time after time after time….
April 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am“Where am I going to get a $100?”
Maybe from the guy that impregnated you? Or maybe you didn’t catch his name?
April 5th, 2008 at 11:35 amTom, did you read the link to the NYT?
April 5th, 2008 at 11:39 amI worked at O’Bleness hospital as an intern, a resident, and later as an attending physician for 12 years. Delivered a lot of babies there. My wife delivered our second child there. Highly caring and qualified staff. A medical school is in the town. The same administration still is in charge at the hospital as when I left the area a few years back. I keep in touch with many of my mentors. The S.E. Ohio area is deeply under-served medically and no one would ever turn a patient away for not paying , ever. Never saw it discussed, entertained, or ever happen, not even close! It was a simple fact that many patients simply could not pay and we never expected them to and we never treated those who paid and those who did not any different. Frankly, we never knew who paid and who didn’t it was so unimportant. Emergency room care was given to whomever showed up. Office care was sliding fee schedule at our office and we wrote off large losses but we took pride in helping people.
Obviously something bad happened to the woman in question medically, bad things still happen on occasion when everything is done right. I remember my Obstetrics professor telling me that delivering babies is 98% boredom and 2% sheer terror.
I am sure some attorney somewhere is salivating at the malpractice case likely ongoing but the hospital in question and the medical community in Athens County takes great pains to provide service to any and all who need it.
This is simply a bold faced lie from a person with nothing but contempt for the country she apparently wants to be the leader of.
Give me the imperfect McCain who loves his country and wants to better it over the other 2 choices who have nothing but contempt for it and want to “change” it…
April 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pmAs a Registered Nurse in Georgia I agree with checkers. I work at a teaching hospital and no one is ever turned away for not being able to pay. As care givers we don’t know who can and can’t pay. Everyone gets the best care we can give at that time. I am as my label states a labor and delivery nurse. No matter how much prenatal care you do or don’t have bad things can and do happen. Sometimes no matter how hard we try these bad things cause the death of mother and baby. As on another thread I recently posted it would be nice if our pinheads would do what is best for the counry not what is best for themselves. The end contrary to popular belief does not justify the means. I think I should have said no to that second glass of wine.
April 5th, 2008 at 8:07 pm