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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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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
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
March 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2009 a White House conference on health care.
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
True
By Alexander Lane • March 5, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009
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