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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/