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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2009 a television interview:
On mandating health care coverage.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 1, 2009 public statements:
On a single-payer health care system.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on July 2, 2009 a television ad:
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 6, 2009
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on June 24, 2009 an interview on Fox News:
During a town hall meeting on health care, "ABC didn't even allow ads that opposed the president's health care plan to be aired."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 24, 2009 a town hall meeting:
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on June 22, 2009 a column:
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 14, 2009 an Internet ad.:
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on June 11, 2009 an op-ed.:
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 12, 2009
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on June 8, 2009 an opinion piece.:
Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are "caused by medical problems."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 11, 2009
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on May 17, 2009 an interview on Fox News Sunday.:
A public option for health care would end private insurance "because the private insurance people will not be able to compete with a government option."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 12, 2009 an e-mail:
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on May 14, 2009 a news release:
"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
Conservatives for Patients' Rights
stated on April 27, 2009 a television ad:
The economic stimulus bill created a council that's "modeled after the national board that controls Britain’s health system."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 11, 2009
Joe Biden
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 4, 2009
Michele Bachmann
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • April 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 29, 2009 a press conference:
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 2, 2009 a chain e-mail.:
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
False
By Robert Farley • April 3, 2009
Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
stated on March 17, 2009 a speech on the Senate Floor.:
On the propriety of budget reconciliation.
Half Flip
By Robert Farley • March 30, 2009
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