[link|http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=42514|Never let the truth get in the way of a good sob story]

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Repeatedly throughout his campaign, Kerry has held up Hudson
resident Mary Ann Knowles as an example of President Bush's failure to
ensure adequate health care for all Americans (as if a President can do
such a thing). Here is what he said during his acceptance speech at the
Democratic National Convention last month:

"What does it mean when Mary Ann Knowles, a woman with breast cancer I
met in New Hampshire, had to keep working day after day right through
her chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified
of losing her family's health insurance? America can do better. And help
is on the way."

Thing is, Mary Ann Knowles did not have to work through her chemotherapy
to keep her health insurance. In fact, she has great health insurance,
which includes 26 weeks of paid disability leave.

Knowles chose to work through most, but not all, of her chemotherapy
because her husband was out of a job. (Kerry said she had to work "every
day" of her chemotherapy. His campaign chalked that lie up to "a
colloquialism.")

She and husband John did not want to take the pay cut that would have
come with disability leave, so Mary Ann kept working. But that is not
how Kerry tells the story. He deliberately misstates her situation,
saying she would have lost her health coverage if she took a single day
off.

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