Latest Fact-Checks In Medicare

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 9, 2024 an interview with Univision
Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”
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By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 Facebook post
“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”
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By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 29, 2023 a speech at the White House
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023
Val Demings
Val Demings
stated on October 31, 2022 a campaign ad
Sen. Marco Rubio "helped write the law to raise prescription prices."
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By Yacob Reyes • November 7, 2022
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 19, 2022 an ad
"Don Bolduc wants to cut trillions from Medicare and end Social Security."
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November 1, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 13, 2022 Public statement
Says Ron Johnson "wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year."
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By Madeline Heim • September 26, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 7, 2020 a Tweet
“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 17, 2020
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly
stated on September 2, 2020 campaign website
Says Sen. Martha McSally “supported a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program and ‘shift costs’ onto seniors” and “even supported raising the retirement age.”
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By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2020
Eugene DePasquale
Eugene DePasquale
stated on August 8, 2020 a tweet
Says Donald Trump's payroll tax deferral “could leave American workers liable for thousands of dollars during tax season and could potentially leave programs like Social Security and Medicare weakened.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 12, 2020 a tweet
“Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.”
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By Meghan Hall, Hannah Roesch • April 29, 2020
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 a press release
"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."
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By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
John Delaney
John Delaney
stated on April 13, 2019 a Tweet
"Most of home care is paid by government programs."
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By Yanqi Xu • April 25, 2019
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 11, 2019 a town hall
"There is $50 billion a year wasted in the Medicare program."  
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April 19, 2019
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 a TV interview
"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."
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By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."
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By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 26, 2016 a Florida Senate debate
Says Marco Rubio "said Social Security and Medicare have ‘weakened us as a people.’ "
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By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2016
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention
"Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance program, which Hillary helped to start."
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By Taylor Leighton • August 8, 2016
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on May 4, 2016 a radio ad
Says Ron Johnson voted to turn Medicare "into a voucher program."
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June 10, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview
Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."
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December 19, 2014
Ilyse Hogue
Ilyse Hogue
stated on March 12, 2014 an interview on "The Daily Show"
"Medicare has spent $172 million on penis pumps in the last five years at $360 a pop."
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By Katie Sanders • March 24, 2014
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