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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on October 15, 2009 a television ad:
Health proposal would create a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2009 his weekly address:
"The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 19, 2009
Save Flexible Spending Plans
Save Flexible Spending Plans
stated on October 14, 2009 a news release:
The Baucus health care bill "would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to help pay for health care reform."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2009
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Nancy-Ann DeParle
stated on October 12, 2009 an interview on "The NewsHour":
A report by the health insurance industry "ignores some of the key policies that are part of the Senate Finance Committee bill."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 a press conference:
After Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, "Bush's approval rating never was better, it only got worse."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 1, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on September 22, 2009 an article on its Web site:
Medicare officials have treated Humana and AARP inconsistently on how they can communicate with seniors.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 30, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on September 9, 2009 a letter to AARP:
AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2009
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on September 28, 2009 a Web ad:
Barack Obama and the Democrats have "proposed a tax for not having health insurance."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 28, 2009
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 23, 2009 an interview on "The Colbert Report":
Goldman Sachs was Barack Obama's "No. 1 private contributor."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 25, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopolous.":
"Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 21, 2009 interview on "Late Night with David Letterman":
"FDR was called a socialist and a communist."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2009
Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on September 16, 2009 his television show "Countdown":
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on September 14, 2009 a fundraising letter:
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 24, 2009 a message forwarded to many people:
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress:
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 the audience at a joint session of Congress:
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress:
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 3, 2009 his television program:
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2009
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