Latest Fact-Checks By Julie Appleby

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Nick LaLota
stated on March 4, 2025 in a video message to constituents:

“On Feb. 25, I voted yes on a budget resolution that protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while cutting some spending elsewhere."

False

By Julie Appleby • March 25, 2025

JD Vance
stated on September 15, 2024 in a "Meet the Press" interview:

Former President Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon (it)."

False

By Julie Appleby • September 20, 2024

Al Franken
stated on May 17, 2023 in a tweet:

"Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”

Mostly True

By Julie Appleby • June 5, 2023

Power to the Patients
stated on April 19, 2022 in a television ad:

About a federal hospital price transparency requirement, “Nobody’s enforcing that law.”

Half-True

By Julie Appleby • August 9, 2022

Community Oncology Alliance
stated on November 29, 2021 in a radio ad:

"An independent analysis shows that payments for cancer care will be slashed by close to 45% causing cancer clinics to close and massively raising your healthcare costs.”

Half-True

By Julie Appleby • December 7, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2021 in social media posts:

“For #Covid vaccines, shingles and even more dangerous and painful skin conditions may be the new thrombocytopenia."

Mostly False

By Julie Appleby • April 29, 2021

Rand Paul
stated on March 21, 2021 in a tweet:

“Sorry Dr Fauci and other fearmongers, new study shows vaccines and naturally acquired immunity DO effectively neutralize COVID variants.”

Half-True

By Julie Appleby • March 26, 2021

Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2020 in an executive order:

“For example, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, my Administration implemented a program to provide any individual without health-insurance coverage access to necessary COVID‑19‑related testing and treatment.”

Mostly True

By Julie Appleby • October 1, 2020

Cory Gardner
stated on September 15, 2020 in a tweet:

Says he authored legislation “to guarantee coverage to people with pre-existing conditions -- no matter what happens to Obamacare.”

False

By Julie Appleby • September 18, 2020

Ryan Holets
stated on August 25, 2020 in in a speech at the Republican National Convention:

“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”

Mostly True

By Julie Appleby • August 27, 2020

Brett Giroir
stated on July 26, 2020 in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”:

“Five veterinary labs have their CLIA certification to officially test human patients. There are a lot of labs who are doing surveillance testing that don't need the CLIA certification.”

Mostly True

By Julie Appleby • August 4, 2020

Mike Pence
stated on March 4, 2020 in in a press briefing:

“With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid."

Half-True

By Julie Appleby • March 6, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union address to Congress:

"Our new (health care) plans are up to 60% less expensive and better" than Obamacare.

Mostly False

By Julie Appleby • February 10, 2020

Christy Harrison
stated on August 26, 2019 in a recent New York Times column:

"We have a host of issues associated with high B.M.I.s. But correlation doesn’t prove causation, and there’s a significant body of research showing that weight stigma and weight cycling can explain most if not all of the associations we see between higher weights and poor health outcomes."

Mostly False

By Julie Appleby • September 17, 2019

Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 15, 2019 in comments made at an AARP-sponsored Democratic presidential primary candidate forum:

"There are, literally, two pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of Congress."

Mostly True

By Julie Appleby • July 26, 2019