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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.
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
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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference
Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 an editorial.
The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009
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