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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas
"When Sen. Edwards ran in 2004, he wasn't for universal health care. I'm glad he is now."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 15, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 Philadelphia
"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 10, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on November 12, 2007 a TV ad
Edwards says if Congress won't pass universal health care, he'll tell Congress: "I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 7, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 31, 2007
"I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."
False
By Lisa Greene • October 31, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on October 3, 2007
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Mostly True
October 15, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2007
"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program."
True
October 15, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 Dearborn, Mich.
"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"
False
October 15, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on August 5, 2007 Des Moines, Iowa
"This (SCHIP) is socialized medicine. It is going to go to families that make $60,000 a year. Those aren't poor children."
True
By Sasha Bartolf • October 15, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 a television ad
"She stood by ground zero workers who sacrificed their health after so many sacrificed their lives and kept standing till this administration took action."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 8, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 2, 2007
"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."
Mostly False
By Michael Van Sickler • October 5, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 26, 2007 Hanover, N.H.
"I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 26, 2007 Hanover, N.H.
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 8, 2007
Obama "won health care for 150,000 people."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 17, 2007 a comment to reporters in Tampa.
"What they will do is socialized medicine."
False
By Kris Hundley • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
"Each year, 18,000 people die in America because they don't have health care."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
Half-True
By Kris Hundley • September 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
Health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 15, 2007
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 9, 2007 a debate in Miami, Fla.
"Thirty-four percent of Hispanics don't have any health care at all, don't have any health insurance."
True
By John Martin • September 6, 2007
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