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Latest Fact-Checks In Medicaid

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Graham Platner
Graham Platner
stated on June 17, 2026 in an ad:
Sen. Susan Collins “sided with Trump, giving billionaires and corporations a hand out, paid for by cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.”
False
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2026
Mehmet Oz
Mehmet Oz
stated on January 6, 2026 in an interview on Fox News:
“By federal law, if you sign someone up for Medicaid, you also give them the right to vote. … This is political patronage at the expense of Medicaid.”
False
By Amy Sherman • January 14, 2026
Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings
stated on July 1, 2025 in an episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip:
Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • July 9, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2025 in remarks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol:
In the House bill, “we’re not changing Medicaid,” only cutting “waste, fraud and abuse.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2025
Nick LaLota
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
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 14, 2025 in social media posts:
“DOGE subcommittee discovered $2.7 trillion in improper” Medicaid and Medicare payments to people overseas.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • February 18, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 23, 2025 in a Facebook post:
President Donald Trump "just reversed all the cost caps Biden negotiated for anyone on Medicare or Medicaid."
False
By Caleb McCullough • January 23, 2025
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on September 22, 2023 in a speech:
Joe Biden "put 20 million people on Medicaid who aren’t even eligible, then stopped states from taking them off."
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 6, 2023
Terri Bryant
Terri Bryant
stated on July 13, 2021 in a radio interview:
“You may be 55 years old in [Illinois] and a citizen and not eligible for Medicaid. But if you are an undocumented immigrant and 55 or older, you’re eligible for Medicaid.”
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 20, 2021
Mark Born
Mark Born
stated on March 21, 2021 in a TV appearance:
“Private insurance gives … better coverage” than people would get under a Medicaid expansion.
False
By Eric Litke • April 21, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 12, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Insulin prices rose “with the swipe of (Joe Biden’s) pen.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 25, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 in a tweet:
“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on July 3, 2018 in a meme shared on the Internet:
"More than 66% of ALL births in California are to illegals on Medi-Cal."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 10, 2018 in remarks at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation:
"Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2018
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
stated on April 29, 2018 in an interview on CNN:
President Donald Trump’s budget "threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid"
False
By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018
Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden
stated on March 29, 2018 in a tweet:
"Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2018
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on September 27, 2017 in an interview:
Says Roy Moore "has advocated getting the federal government out of health care altogether, which means doing away with Medicaid, which means doing away with Medicare."
False
By John Kruzel • October 26, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 4, 2017 in CNN:
"Nobody on Medicaid" will have their benefits taken away.
False
By John Kruzel • May 9, 2017
Ted Yoho
Ted Yoho
stated on March 14, 2017 in an interview on PBS:
"It’s been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2017
Steven Landes
Steven Landes
stated on December 24, 2015 in a constituent survey.:
Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year..."
False
By Sean Gorman • January 11, 2016
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