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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on December 5, 2013 a video
"(U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston) voted to fund (Obamacare)."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • December 10, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on November 18, 2013 an interview.
Mark Warner cast "the tiebreaking vote" to pass Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • November 25, 2013
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens
stated on November 4, 2013 an email
"In Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire has a Senator who was the deciding vote to pass Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Jim Haddadin • November 19, 2013
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2013 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The (health care) law does not demand that all of these cancellations go out."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2013
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
stated on November 8, 2013 a broadcast of the "Tonight Show"
"Social Security took seven years before anybody got the first check."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 12, 2013
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on October 29, 2013 a television ad
Says "new mandates are already reducing full-time employment."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 6, 2013
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on October 30, 2013 comments on his radio show
"If your plan is the result of collective bargaining, no subsequent changes by anybody -- insurance companies, Obamacare -- can force your grandfathered policy to change."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • November 4, 2013
Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
stated on November 3, 2013 a "Fox News Sunday" interview
"The insurance companies are making that choice (to cancel or change policies), not the president."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • November 3, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2013 an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor."
In Florida, "300,000 people are going to lose their individual coverage because of Obamacare. Now those people next year, they don’t have health insurance."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2013 Facebook posts
Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • October 24, 2013
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 25, 2013 an interview
"Wisconsin is not as obese as the national average is. The national average, 35.7 percent of the population is obese. In Wisconsin, it's closer to 26 percent."
Mostly False
October 24, 2013
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on October 21, 2013 a broadcast of the Sean Hannity Show on WBAP AM
"In 45 out of 50 states, on average men are seeing their premiums double, going up 99 percent. Women up 62 percent."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 20, 2013 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"I never was in favor of shutting down the government. … (I) voted to fund the government fully."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2013
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on September 29, 2013 a newspaper op-ed
According to a federal report, Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion.
Mostly False
By Janel Davis • October 22, 2013
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on October 16, 2013 an interview with CBS News
The "president has given 1,100 special waivers to his friends" for Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 18, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 speech advocating repeal of Obamacare law
"Neville Chamberlain told the British people: ‘Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.’"
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on October 9, 2013 an advertisement
Ann Kuster turned "a blind eye to those in need of funding" by voting "against funding for our nation’s veterans, low-income women and children, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health."
Mostly False
By Kaitlin Mulhere • October 16, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2013 Senate floor speech on the Obamacare law
"Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2013
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on September 12, 2013 a statement.
The growth in health care costs "has been reined in through the Affordable Care Act."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • October 4, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 27, 2013 remarks at the White House
"The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — (voted) to keep our government open."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2013
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