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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopolous."
"Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2009
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on September 16, 2009 a speech on the House floor
"Recent census data shows that the average American family spends over $13,000 a year for health care coverage."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2009
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release
"Under the Baucus bill ... federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions."
False
September 21, 2009
National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release
The Baucus bill "contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion."
True
September 21, 2009
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
stated on September 18, 2009 a speech
"In some states, it is still legal to deny a woman coverage because she's been the victim of domestic violence."
True
By Catharine Richert • September 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 a television advertisement
Health insurance companies deny "1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress
Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on September 16, 2009 his television show "Countdown"
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 a television advertisement
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2009
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on September 14, 2009 a fundraising letter
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on September 13, 2009 remarks on NBC's Meet the Press
"Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 15, 2009
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.
The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."
False
By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009
Paul Hipp
Paul Hipp
stated on September 9, 2009 a YouTube video
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2009
Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany
stated on September 9, 2009 response to President Obama's health care address to Congress
The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
Mostly False
September 11, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 10, 2009 a statement from the Minority Leader's office
As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 24, 2009 a message forwarded to many people
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on September 9, 2009 a "myth and fact" news release
"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 the audience at a joint session of Congress
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
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