FACT CHECK: Flaws in Obama’s health care anecdotes (AP)

In this June 16, 2009, photo provide by the Office of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, Robin Beaton testifies during the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing about her health insurance on Capitol Hill in Washington. Beaton's insurance company opened an investigation after her visit to a dermatologist, and just before her scheduled breast cancer surgery, forcing postponement of her operation almost on the eve of it. Barton, Beaton's Republican congressman in Texas, fought the insurer until it restored her coverage, enabling her to get the surgery 10 weeks after it was postponed. Beaton told the Associated Press that she owes Barton and his aides her life. (AP Photo/Jared Pelley)AP – One of President Barack Obama’s health care “horror stories” is about a woman who, he says, lost her health insurance on the verge of breast cancer surgery because she didn’t disclose a case of acne to the insurer. That’s not what happened.


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