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Latest Fact-Checks In Medicare

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Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on May 11, 2012 a campaign website posting
Betty Sutton "gutted Medicare by $500 billion" with her vote for the president's health care bill.
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • May 21, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says "as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it."
False
By Bill Wichert • May 20, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 9, 2012 a TV ad
"20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 15, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 9, 2012 a TV ad
"Seniors will see $500 billion in Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • May 15, 2012
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on May 1, 2012 a campaign email
Jim Renacci "voted repeatedly to end Medicare."
False
By Tom Feran • May 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 4, 2012 a speech to the Newspaper Association of America
Says Barack Obama "is the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 4, 2012
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
stated on March 11, 2012 a television ad
"Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years."
False
By Tom Feran • March 29, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 20, 2012 a web video ad
President Barack Obama "reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011."
True
By Molly Moorhead • March 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 12, 2012 a campaign memo
President Barack Obama is "ending Medicare as we know it."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2012
Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty
stated on March 11, 2012 a TV news show.
"We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • March 20, 2012
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
stated on March 11, 2012 a television ad
An independent payment advisory board created by the health care reform law "can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Feran • March 19, 2012
Pat Boone
Pat Boone
stated on March 12, 2012 a television ad
"This (Independent Payment Advisory Board) board can ration care and deny certain Medicare treatments so Washington can fund more wasteful spending."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 15, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio
After President Barack Obama’s health care law takes full effect, "100 percent" of Americans will "depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 22, 2012 a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.
"When I was born, less than 10 percent of the federal budget was entitlement spending. It's now 60 percent of the budget."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on February 8, 2012 a speech on the House floor
"The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 19, 2012
Kurt Schrader
Kurt Schrader
stated on February 2, 2012 congressional website
In just a few decades, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.
True
By Charles Pope • February 3, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on January 10, 2012 campaign material
Rob Cornilles supports privatizing Medicare.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 24, 2012
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on November 8, 2011 a USA Today column.
A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."
True
By Michael Collins • January 24, 2012
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on January 20, 2012 a television ad
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2012
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