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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2024 a Biden for President campaign ad
If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”
Mostly True
By Jacob Gardenswartz • June 12, 2024
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 19, 2023 a press release.
“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
Mostly True
By Michelle Andrews • July 28, 2023
Al Franken
Al Franken
stated on May 17, 2023 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 10, 2022 a speech
“Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.”
Mostly True
By Victoria Knight • March 1, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 30, 2020 a political ad
“Donald Trump and Thom Tillis opposed legislation that would lower the price of insulin and other prescription drugs.”
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By Aneri Pattani • October 19, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 29, 2020 in comments during the first presidential debate
“There's 100 million people that have preexisting conditions.”
Mostly True
By Victoria Knight • October 1, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2020 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
Ryan Holets
Ryan Holets
stated on August 25, 2020 in a speech at the Republican National Convention
“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”
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By Julie Appleby • August 27, 2020
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 10, 2020 during a televised roundtable discussion on education
“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”
Mostly True
By Phil Galewitz • August 20, 2020
Brett Giroir
Brett Giroir
stated on July 26, 2020 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 8, 2020 an op-ed published in The Guardian
“It has been estimated that only 12% of workers in businesses that are likely to stay open during this crisis are receiving paid sick leave benefits as a result of the second coronavirus relief package."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 13, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on October 15, 2019 comments made during the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential primary debate
 "Back when I was studying it, two out of three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • October 16, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 15, 2019 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 8, 2019 a TV interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo
"We made parity between mental health and physical health. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • July 11, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 28, 2019 a position paper released at a town hall meeting in Houston.
"The current school psychologist to student ratio in this country is roughly 1,400 to 1, while experts say it should be at most 700 to 1." 
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • June 5, 2019
Eric Swalwell
Eric Swalwell
stated on May 8, 2019 posted on Twitter
"The so-called ‘heartbeat’ law outlaws abortion before most women even know that they're pregnant. This is one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in our country." 
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 13, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 29, 2019 a cable TV news interview.
"We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism." 
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • May 1, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 22, 2019 a CNN town hall event
"One out of 4 diabetes patients in our country cannot afford their insulin."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • April 26, 2019