Hillary Clinton caught in another lie, this one hurts an entire family!
April 6, 2008 - It seems that
Hillary Rodham Clinton has again "misspoke" on the campaign trail,
and a distraught Ohio family is furious about it.
Several times in recent months
while talking about her plan for universal health care, Clinton told a tale of
woe about a young pregnant woman who sought medical care at a local hospital
and was turned away for lack of insurance - and both she and the baby died.
But the family of the 35-year-old
woman - Trina Bachtel - says the story is simply not true.
"Trina had good insurance. She
was a good girl, and she worked hard. That story made her look like she was a
welfare bum," her 80-year-old grandmother May Mayle told The Post
yesterday.
Mayle confirmed that Bachtel died
last August from complications related to a late-pregnancy miscarriage, but
said she was never turned away from a hospital.
"The family is real torn up
about it. I can't understand why they'd make her out to look like she was so
unstable," said Mayle.
As Clinton told the story during
campaign rallies, the young, pregnant woman in difficulty was turned down for
treatment because she was uninsured and couldn't pay $100 up front.
She didn't name Bachtel or the hospital involved, but
after the Washington Post ran a story identifying her and where she worked - a
Pizza Hut in Pomeroy, Ohio - local papers made it front-page news, horrifying
her still-grieving family.