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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 7, 2009 in a posting on the conservative Web site TownHall.com:
The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2009
Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
stated on September 21, 2009 in a column in the newspaper Roll Call:
Health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001.
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2009
Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
stated on September 21, 2009 in a column in the newspaper Roll Call:
Insurance companies have seen their profits soar by more than 400 percent since 2001.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2009
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on October 4, 2009 in appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 in the movie Capitalism: A Love Story:
All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 in a news conference in Washington, D.C.:
"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2009
Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 in a news release:
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2009
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on September 22, 2009 in an interview with Sen. John McCain on Fox News Channel:
The Obama administration is "cutting back on defense"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2009
Massachusetts legislature
Massachusetts legislature
stated on September 22, 2009 in votes in 2004 and 2009:
On whether the governor of Massachusetts should be able to appoint an interim U.S. senator
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2009
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on September 16, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
"Recent census data shows that the average American family spends over $13,000 a year for health care coverage."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 in a television advertisement:
Health insurance companies deny "1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in a speech to a joint session of Congress:
Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 in a television advertisement:
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on September 13, 2009 in remarks on NBC's Meet the Press:
"Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 15, 2009
Paul Hipp
Paul Hipp
stated on September 9, 2009 in a YouTube video:
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 10, 2009 in a statement from the Minority Leader's office:
As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on September 9, 2009 in a "myth and fact" news release:
"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in a speech to a joint session of Congress:
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Matt Miller
Matt Miller
stated on September 8, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:
"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2009
John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 in a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America:
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009
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