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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on August 13, 2009 in an op-ed in the Washington Examiner:
"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2009
America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on August 27, 2009 in CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:
"Every survey shows strong satisfaction with private coverage."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren:
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2009 in a forum with supporters:
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
"As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 19, 2009 in an appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show:
"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 in an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2009
J. James Rohack
J. James Rohack
stated on August 16, 2009 in Fox News Sunday:
Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a "pre-existing condition."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 14, 2009 in the Rachel Maddow Show:
Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 5, 2009 in a blog posting.:
During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 in a news release:
Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 in a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.:
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 2, 2009 in CNN's State of the Union with John King:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. "spent $1.3 trillion on tax cuts for the wealthy" and "trillions" each on a war and on Medicare drug benefits.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
stated on August 2, 2009 in on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2009
Dan Lungren
Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
"53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 in This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Bill Bennett
Bill Bennett
stated on July 26, 2009 in CNN's State of the Union with John King:
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 in a news conference.:
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
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