Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Tim Scott
stated on November 26, 2017 an interview on ABC's "This Week"

"If you don't pay income taxes ... you'll have more money" under the Republican tax plan.

By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2017

Doug Jones
stated on September 27, 2017 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."

By John Kruzel • October 26, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on October 18, 2017 a tweet

Insurance companies "have made a fortune with Obamacare."

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 27, 2017 an interview

"We have one senator who’s a ‘yes’ vote ... but he’s in the hospital. And he’s a ‘yes’ vote. So we can’t do it by Friday. So we have the votes" to pass a health care bill.

By John Kruzel • September 28, 2017

Ron Johnson
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview

The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."

September 22, 2017

Sean Duffy
stated on September 14, 2017 a Facebook Live town hall

Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."

September 20, 2017

Karen Handel
stated on August 30, 2017 a telephone town hall

"The Affordable Care Act is the single largest tax increase in my lifetime."

By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2017

Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business

"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."

By Chris Nichols • July 21, 2017

Mike Pence
stated on July 14, 2017 a speech to the National Governors Association

In Ohio, due to Medicaid expansion, "nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists ... leaving them without the care they need for months or even years."

By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2017

Bob Casey
stated on July 5, 2017 a tweet

The GOP health care proposal would slash more than $135 million in federal funding available to PA schools.

By Anna Orso • July 11, 2017

John Faso
stated on June 1, 2017 a radio town hall

A waiver in the American Health Care Act "doesn’t apply to things like maternity coverage."

By Dan Clark • June 22, 2017

Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 as quoted in a Central Health press release

Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017

James Lankford
stated on May 24, 2017 a Facebook post

"This year, a majority of states are seeing premiums and costs double" under Obamacare.

By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2017

Sean Duffy
stated on May 9, 2017 an interview

The Republican replacement for Obamacare does not give massive tax cuts to wealthy Americans.

May 12, 2017

Bill Zedler
stated on April 25, 2017 his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health

Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on March 28, 2017 a tweet

"We have 5 percent of world population. 80 percent of opioids."

By Gary Garrison • May 10, 2017

Kevin McCarthy
stated on May 4, 2017 CNN

"Nobody on Medicaid" will have their benefits taken away.

By John Kruzel • May 9, 2017

Americas PAC
stated on April 27, 2017 a radio ad

Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.

May 5, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 Twitter

"Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies to bail out donors"

By John Kruzel • May 4, 2017

Margaret Hoover
stated on May 2, 2017 a discussion on CNN

Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2017

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