Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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X posts
X posts
stated on August 16, 2025 an X post
“North Carolina has just approved a law permitting foreign doctors to practice without completing U.S. training or licensing exams.”
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By Paul Specht • September 16, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on September 4, 2025 a Senate Finance Committee hearing
“Everybody can get” the COVID-19 vaccine.
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By Grace Abels, Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 4, 2025
stated on July 6, 2025 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
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 8, 2025 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
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 22, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 11, 2025 a Truth Social post
Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2025
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 10, 2024 an interview
“Communicable diseases like HIV and TB (tuberculosis) have skyrocketed” after Haitian migrants came to Springfield, Ohio.
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • September 26, 2024
Jon Tester
Jon Tester
stated on September 6, 2024 a Facebook ad
“Tim Sheehy told us his health care plan: ‘We need to return health care to pure privatization.’ That would eliminate Medicare.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 30, 2024 a rally in Atlanta
Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 a speech at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Vice President Kamala Harris “endorsed free taxpayer-funded government health care for all illegal aliens.”
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By Stephanie Armour • July 31, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 a campaign event
Project 2025 calls for restricting “access to IVF and contraception.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • July 24, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2024 a campaign event
Former President Donald Trump told Time magazine that “states should monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2024
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on April 14, 2024 an X post
Immigrants in the country illegally cost “Florida taxpayers $566 million for 54,000 hospital visits.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 2, 2024
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 7, 2024 TV interview
“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”
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By D.L. Davis • February 9, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2023 una publicación en Facebook
"Los estadounidenses que ganan menos de $50,000 al año pueden solicitar un seguro médico gratuito".
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December 12, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 23, 2023 una publicación en Facebook
“Si ganas menos de $50,000 al año” puedes calificar para un crédito de salud y usarlo para “lo que sea”.
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño • September 28, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 23, 2023 a social media post
“Norway, Finland, Sweden, Holland, and the UK have now banned gender transition surgery for minors.”
Mostly False
By Grace Abels • September 6, 2023
Citizens Against Government Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste
stated on August 7, 2023 a political ad
A bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders would “increase government control” of pharmacy benefit managers and is a “radical health care takeover.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • August 11, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 10, 2023 una publicación en Facebook
Científicos descubren que al “consumir 3 tazas de leche diaria, las personas tienen más riesgos de desarrollar cáncer de mama”.
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño • June 20, 2023
Mike Bost
Mike Bost
stated on April 26, 2023 a House floor speech
Addressing the impact of the House GOP debt-ceiling bill on veterans’ programs, "I'm dead serious that we're not cutting veterans, and I mean it."
Mostly False
By Michael McAuliff • May 9, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 1, 2023 an image shared on Instagram
“All ‘gender affirming care’ for children is 100% experimental. There are zero long term studies on the effects the drugs and surgeries will have on them.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • January 17, 2023
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