Latest Fact Checks By Catharine Richert

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Axelrod gets it right on vet benefits

August 14, 2009
Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits.
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Obama claims Medicare benefits will not be cut under the health care bill

August 14, 2009
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
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Obama goes too far when he says health reform bills have AARP endorsement

August 12, 2009
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
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Obama is right on federal health care for janitors and senators

August 11, 2009
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
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Most Democrats are opposed to giving up their health care plans

August 10, 2009
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to…
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School health clinics would not provide abortions

August 7, 2009
Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"
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Club for Growth’s health care ad campaign is misleading

August 6, 2009
The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the "socialized" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would…
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Public Citizen gets it right about insider trading rules

August 6, 2009
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to…
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Carnahan misquotes CBO about cost of health care reform plan

August 3, 2009
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also…
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Claims the Senate voted to give undocumented workers Social Security benefits

July 29, 2009
"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
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Obama says there is widespread support for health care reform

July 27, 2009
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
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McCaughey claims end-of-life counseling will be required for Medicare patients

July 23, 2009
The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session…
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