Latest Fact Checks By Jacob Gardenswartz

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Drug bottles for KFF Right to Try fact-check, 11-1-2024

No evidence Trump’s experimental drug program for terminal patients saved ‘thousands and thousands’

By Jacob Gardenswartz
October 31, 2024
"Right to Try" experimental drug program saved "thousands and thousands of lives."
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prescription drugs at a hospital dispensary

Harris said Trump ‘never’ kept his promise on prescription drug price negotiations. That’s True.

By Jacob Gardenswartz
September 30, 2024
“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.”
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Alameda, California, drug bust for KFF story on fentanyl, 4-23-2022

Trump drastically inflates annual fentanyl death numbers

By Jacob Gardenswartz
August 16, 2024
“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse…
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Donald Trump in Bozeman, Mont., 8-9-2023

Kamala Harris did not vote to ‘cut Medicare,’ despite Donald Trump’s claim

By Jacob Gardenswartz
August 15, 2024
“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”
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Trump wrong in claiming full credit for lowering insulin prices

By Jacob Gardenswartz
July 12, 2024
Lower insulin prices were the work of the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it.”
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President Joe Biden at the White House, 5-31-2024

Biden mostly right on how Obamacare repeal would affect preexisting condition protections

By Jacob Gardenswartz
June 12, 2024
If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”
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