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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 an address to a joint session of Congress
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
Mostly False
September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
Preventive care "saves money."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009
Matt Miller
Matt Miller
stated on September 8, 2009 a Washington Post op-ed
"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2009
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 his radio program
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
Mostly False
September 8, 2009
Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on August 13, 2009 an op-ed in the Washington Examiner
"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2009
Organizing for America
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.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on August 27, 2009 CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight
"Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show
"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on "Fox and Friends"
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2009
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 10, 2009 an interview with Rachel Maddow
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 25, 2009 a radio broadcast
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on August 24, 2009 Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 a mailing
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 a mailing
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Michael Steele
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."
Pants on Fire!
August 25, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 9, 2009 an appearance on ABC's "This Week"
"There's no rationing in any of these bills."
False
August 25, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 18, 2009 a press release
The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."
False
August 25, 2009
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