But thankfully I’m not as sick as this woman’s husband. Lucky for her Tom Coburn is such a compassionate man, because otherwise her husband would be fucked.

Of course I don’t except you to click on that link, so I’m going to quote one of my favorite Tom Coburn stories:

A sterilization Coburn performed on a 20-year-old woman in 1990 became what was called “the most incendiary issue” of his Senate campaign.[35] Coburn performed the sterilization on the woman during an emergency surgery to treat a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, removing her intact fallopian tube as well as the one damaged by the surgery. The woman sued Coburn, alleging that he did not have consent to sterilize her, while Coburn claimed he had her oral consent. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed with no finding of liability on Coburn’s part.

The state attorney general claimed that Coburn committed Medicaid fraud by not reporting the sterilization when he filed a claim for the emergency surgery. Medicaid did not reimburse doctors for sterilization procedures for patients under 21, and according to the attorney general, Coburn would not have been reimbursed at all had he not withheld this information. Coburn says since he did not file a claim for the sterilization, no fraud was committed. No charges were filed against Coburn for this claim.

I wonder if that women would have asked Tom Coburn for help if she’d known he sterilized a young woman and committed Medicaid fraud?

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