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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting in New Hampshire:
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting:
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.:
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 11, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 an interview with This Week.:
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • August 10, 2009
Sarah Palin
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review:
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
False
By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
Liberty Counsel
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!"
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 7, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 5, 2009 a blog posting.:
During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 a news release:
Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on August 4, 2009 a TV ad:
The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the "socialized" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than $22,000.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Dan Lungren
Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor:
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009
Russ Carnahan
Russ Carnahan
stated on July 20, 2009 a town hall meeting in Missouri.:
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 3, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor:
"53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor:
Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Chain email
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 a chain e-mail:
"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a speech on health care reform:
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a news conference.:
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
Betsy McCaughey
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009
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