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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 21, 2014 a gubernatorial debate in Jacksonville:
Says property insurance rates are going up because Rick Scott signed a bill preventing the state from regulating insurance.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 24, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 19, 2014 an interview on CNN:
"Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general)."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 23, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 19, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
Some doctors say Ebola can be transmitted through the air by "a sneeze or some cough."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 19, 2014
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on October 14, 2014 a debate:
Under my platform, "I will make no changes to the current (Medicare) system for current retirees and anyone approaching retirement."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 12, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
"We were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 12, 2014
Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
stated on October 1, 2014 a Web video:
"20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 9, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on September 29, 2014 a debate in Austin:
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on September 9, 2014 a TV ad.:
Says Mark Warner told PolitiFact National's "Lie of the Year" in 2013.
False
By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2014
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on August 15, 2014 an interview:
Heroin and prescription opioids are "the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 27, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on July 27, 2014 a syndicated column:
Oregon’s "three largest employers, and 13 of the top 25, are health care providers."
False
By Dana Tims • July 31, 2014
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on July 11, 2014 a TV interview.:
Governing magazine has "estimated that in the states that don’t expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states..."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 25, 2014
Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock
stated on July 7, 2014 a web post.:
Obamacare "already has caused millions of hardworking Virginians to lose their health insurance."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 20, 2014
Donna Edwards
Donna Edwards
stated on July 13, 2014 a roundtable discussion on CNN's "State of the Union":
"74 percent of Republicans support the Affordable Care Act."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2014
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on July 10, 2014 a press conference:
The U.S. Supreme Court is "five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 11, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on July 10, 2014 a campaign ad:
Says Mitch McConnell voted to raise Medicare costs for a current Kentucky senior by $6,000.
False
By Steve Contorno • July 10, 2014
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on July 7, 2014 a tweet:
"Thanks to #ObamaCare, average E.R. wait in California is 5 hours."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 8, 2014
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 6, 2014 interview on ABC's "This Week":
Says Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.
False
By Lauren Carroll • July 8, 2014
Monica Wehby
Monica Wehby
stated on May 21, 2014 a campaign news release:
"Jeff Merkley was the deciding vote on Obamacare, which in Oregon has been an unmitigated disaster."
False
By Dana Tims • May 23, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on May 18, 2014 a discussion on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"Congress has cut funding, has slashed funding, for veterans' benefits over these last years."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2014
Russ Fulcher
Russ Fulcher
stated on May 14, 2014 a gubernatorial debate:
"Idaho was the only Republican-led state in the nation that chose to partner with President Obama" by creating a state-based marketplace under the Affordable Care Act.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2014
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