Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Boehner says abortion access was always a key goal for Obama health plan

By Louis Jacobson

September 11, 2009

As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at…

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House Republicans back up heckler, saying health bill wouldn’t check who’s illegal

By Louis Jacobson

September 10, 2009

"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."

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Obama is correct that “death panel” charge is a lie

By Angie Drobnic Holan , Louis Jacobson

September 10, 2009

"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain…

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Analyst says Netherlands, Switzerland achieve universal coverage through private insurance

By Louis Jacobson

September 9, 2009

"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."

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Texas lawmaker is latest Republican to say health bill would kill 4.7 million jobs

By Louis Jacobson

September 8, 2009

"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."

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Barbour claims Obama took longer to choose a dog than he’s giving nation to overhaul health care system

By Louis Jacobson

September 3, 2009

"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of…

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Private insurance plans say public has ‘strong satisfaction’ with their coverage

By Louis Jacobson

September 1, 2009

"Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage."

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Coburn says 20 percent of every Medicare dollar goes to fraud

By Louis Jacobson

August 27, 2009

"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to…

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Obama says lower obesity rates would save Medicare $1 trillion

By Louis Jacobson

August 24, 2009

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as…

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Pascrell says up to 22,000 Americans die yearly because they don’t have health insurance

By Louis Jacobson

August 20, 2009

"As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance."

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Sanders says U.S. doubles every other country in per capita health spending

By Louis Jacobson

August 20, 2009

"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."

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At 59, GOP congressman says he couldn’t get a hip replacement in Canada or England

By Louis Jacobson

August 19, 2009

"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."

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