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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on August 13, 2008 the Democratic Party platform:
"We spend more on health care than any other country, but we're ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality."
True
By Seth Stern • August 25, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 7, 2008 remarks to reporters by campaign adviser Carly Fiorina in Washington, D.C.:
"There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication."
Mostly False
By Kris Hundley • July 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa.:
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 8, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 28, 2008 a campaign stop at Miami children's hospital :
"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 8, 2008
Florida Consumer Action Network
Florida Consumer Action Network
stated on April 29, 2008 a press conference in Tampa:
"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • May 7, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 29, 2008 South Bend, Ind.:
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.
True
By Robert Farley • May 2, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 a television ad:
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 20, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on April 5, 2008 an e-mail message:
"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 8, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 a television ad:
John McCain and George Bush have "absolutely no plan for universal health care."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 28, 2008 a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio.:
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
False
By Bill Adair • February 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 Cleveland, Ohio:
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 Austin, Texas:
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 22, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 13, 2008 in a television ad:
Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 13, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 30, 2008 a debate in Simi Valley, Calif.:
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 31, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 6, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa:
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev. :
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev. :
"I do provide universal health care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
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