Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Americans for Prosperity
stated on March 16, 2010 a TV ad

"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."

March 16, 2010

Cathie Adams
stated on February 20, 2010 a fund-raising letter

"Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2010

C.W. Bill Young
stated on February 20, 2010 a speech to Pinellas County Republicans.

The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of our health programs."

By Bill Adair • February 25, 2010

Nancy Pfotenhauer
stated on January 27, 2010 an interview on CNN

The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 28, 2010

Rick Perry
stated on December 20, 2009 in a press release

"Sen. Hutchison abandoned Republicans and stood with Democrats to ensure health care legislation would pass quickly."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2010

Chain email
stated on November 23, 2009 a widely circulated e-mail

A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."

By Louis Jacobson • November 25, 2009

Glenn Beck
stated on November 12, 2009 his radio program

"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."

November 12, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 30, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel.

Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."

By Catharine Richert • November 3, 2009

Organizing for America
stated on September 1, 2009 a fundraising e-mail

Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009

Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 25, 2009 a radio broadcast

"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."

By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on August 25, 2009 a Fox News interview

The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."

August 25, 2009

Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."

By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 a message posted on Facebook

Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009

Liberty Counsel
stated on July 29, 2009 a memo on the group's Web site.

Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"

By Catharine Richert • August 7, 2009

Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail

"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009

Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail

In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009

Betsy McCaughey
stated on July 16, 2009 on the Fred Thompson radio show

The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."

By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.

The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009

Joe Biden
stated on April 30, 2009 an interview on "The Today Show"

"When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on April 27, 2009 an interview with Pajamas Media.

In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."

By Bill Adair • April 30, 2009

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