Update: Partial vindication from AP - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Clinton-Hospital-Fact-Check.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html
"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."
"Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, Ohio, sheriff's deputy in late February."
This is video of Hillary Clinton telling the story in Wyoming on March 8, 2008.
Digg the story at jedreport.com:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Hillary_Clinton_makes_up_health_care_horror_story_w_video
Tags: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Health Care Ohio Trina Bachtel Grand Forks North Dakota
