Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on September 10, 2024 the ABC News presidential debate
“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.”
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By Jacob Gardenswartz • September 30, 2024
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 25, 2024 an interview
“JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’”
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By Samantha Putterman • August 30, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 23, 2024 Public appearance
Eric Hovde “wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and kick millions off their health insurance.”
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By Hope Karnopp • August 7, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 6, 2024 a moderated conversation
Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women."
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By Samantha Putterman • July 11, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 29, 2024 an interview with Univision Noticias
Postpartum Medicaid coverage expanded from three states to 43 states because of the Biden administration.
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February 8, 2024
Jill Billings
Jill Billings
stated on November 14, 2023 Assembly floor speech
“With school-based professional social workers, the recommendation is 400-to-1, and in Wisconsin, we’re almost triple that.”
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By Tyler Katzenberger • December 13, 2023
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 26, 2023 Twitter
Infertility is treated differently than other issues and "often excluded from insurance coverage"
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By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on May 8, 2022 TV interview
Because of U.S. Senate rules, Democrats need "more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade."
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By D.L. Davis • May 11, 2022
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on September 28, 2021 Email
Says gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch “worked with Scott Walker to sign five abortion restrictions into law that took away services and threatened doctors with prison time for providing safe and legal abortions.”
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By Madeline Heim • November 2, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 3, 2021 Twitter
“324,000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.”
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By Madeline Heim • August 13, 2021
Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley
stated on January 14, 2021 a tweet
Insulin prices have "gone THRU THE ROOF for patients/taxpayers bc of manufacturer, health plan & PBM biz practices."
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February 2, 2021
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on September 19, 2020 a tweet
“In the last 10 years less than half of adults in the U.S. received a flu shot.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • September 25, 2020
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on August 26, 2020 a TV ad.
Nick Freitas “supports a plan letting insurance companies deny coverage for preexisting conditions like asthma or diabetes.”
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By Warren Fiske • September 3, 2020
M.J. Hegar
M.J. Hegar
stated on July 22, 2020 a speech
Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on June 29, 2020 a tweet
“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."
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By Madeline Heim • July 23, 2020
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on June 25, 2020 a TV interview
"The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.”
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By Madeline Heim • July 22, 2020
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on March 4, 2020 news release
"If Roe is overturned, Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime.”
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By Madeline Heim • June 11, 2020
Jamie Nadler
Jamie Nadler
stated on April 14, 2020 a newspaper interview
“Small trials” to test convalescent plasma therapy for coronavirus patients “seem to have had some degree of success.”
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By Julia Schneider • April 29, 2020
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2020 his online video endorsement of Joe Biden for president
Republicans “have shown themselves willing to cut millions off their health insurance and eliminate preexisting condition protections for millions more, even in the middle of this public health crisis."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 a Facebook post
“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”
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By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020
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