Medicaid

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True
0% 23 Checks
Mostly True
0% 46 Checks
Half True
0% 0 Checks
Mostly False
0% 38 Checks
False
0% 39 Checks
Pants on Fire
0% 1 Checks
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All Fact-checks for Medicaid

Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
stated on January 6, 2026 in an interview on Fox News:
“By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote. … This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.”
False
January 14, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on September 4, 2025 in a Senate hearing:
“It's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.”
Mostly False
October 13, 2025
stated on July 6, 2025 in an interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation":
A Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”
Mostly False
July 11, 2025
stated on July 1, 2025 in an episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip:
Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.”
False
July 9, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 8, 2025 in a television interview:
Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
Mostly False
June 22, 2025
stated on June 1, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid (payments) is improper.”
Mostly False
June 4, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2025 in remarks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol:
In the House bill, “we’re not changing Medicaid,” only cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”
False
May 22, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 14, 2025 in una conferencia de prensa:
Que California ofrezca acceso asequible a cuidado de salud para los inmigrantes ilegalmente en EE.UU.
Half Flip
May 21, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 in a post on X:
“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”
Half-True
May 16, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 14, 2025 in in a press conference:
On California offering affordable health care access for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Half Flip
May 16, 2025
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