An update to his earlier post, "Roger Lott (my son) v. Barack Obama"

UPDATE: I have gotten some emails asking about Roger's grandmother, his mom's mom, who died in Sweden. His grandmother was complaining of abdominal pain and got an appointment with a GP. The GP set up an appointment with a specialist, but she had to wait about three months before the first opening was available. The week before her appointment with the specialist she had to be rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery because the tumor that was producing her pain was blocking her small intestines. After the surgery, it took 8 months before she was able to get an MRI (to speed things up we offered to pay for an MRI in the US, but Swedish doctors would not approve her travel because they said she was too ill). After her MRI, it took another 7 months before her chemo started. By that time though there was apparently little that they could do to help her.

I'd sure like somebody in the press to verify this story. Anybody speak Swedish?

I attended Obama's Town Hall meeting last week at Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, Pa. As one expects at these kinds of campaign events, most of the questions were friendly, but Obama got a somewhat hostile question from a red-headed student who failed to identify himself but asked Obama if he was advocating a government-run healthcare system like they have in Europe. The teen said his grandmother had died in Sweden while waiting for treatment. 

 

It turns out the kid, Roger Lott, is the son of conservative economist John R. Lott Jr., the author of Freedomnomics and The Bias Against Guns. 

 

John Lott proudly mentions the back-and-forth on his blog:

 

Barack Obama recently gave a talk at my son Roger's high school . . . You might note that Roger obviously has quite a reputation there at the school. There is quite the ruckus as soon as it is clear that he is the one who is about to ask the next question.

 

In another post on his blog, Lott says he knows Obama from their years at the University of Chicago Law School. I wonder if Obama remembers him!

And I'd also be curious to learn more details about Lott's mother or mother-in-law's situation. 

Anybody TPM Muckrakers care to do some fact-checking???