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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on August 14, 2012
Medicare "premium support" backed by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan "is not vouchers."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 17, 2012
Shelley Adler
Shelley Adler
stated on September 12, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
Says Congressman Jon Runyan has a "plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • September 16, 2012
Artur Davis
Artur Davis
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
The health care law imposes a federal mandate requiring middle-class Americans to buy health insurance "whether they can afford it or not."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 29, 2012
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on August 15, 2012 a campaign email
Says Betty Sutton and House Democrats "gutted" Medicare by $741 billion to pay for Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • August 24, 2012
Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett
stated on July 29, 2012 an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • August 3, 2012
Dave Weldon
Dave Weldon
stated on July 23, 2012 a mock debate
Embryonic stem cell research is at a "dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 31, 2012
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on July 6, 2012 a Web advertisement titled “College vs. Smokes.”
"Bill O'Brien's Tea Party legislature tried to repeal kindergarten and compulsory education, defund Planned Parenthood and eliminate insurance coverage for birth control."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • July 16, 2012
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on June 28, 2012 a TV interview.
Because of the health care act, "The people who have health care and like it in this county are not going to be able to keep what they have."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • July 16, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad
"Bill Nelson was the deciding vote" on the health care law.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman • July 11, 2012
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on June 7, 2012 a news release
President Barack Obama’s health care reform "slashed $500 billion from Medicare."
Mostly False
July 11, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on June 28, 2012 an interview on Richard French Live
Says as a result of the national health care reform, "the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • July 11, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on June 29, 2012 a television interview
Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 10, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 2, 2012 a Fox News interview
Says the Congressional Budget Office "said if you’re going to buy your own policy with these (health care) exchanges you’ll be paying 10 percent more ... about $2,100 more for a family."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 6, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on June 28, 2012 a press release
Says there are "$500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law]."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • June 29, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2012 a Facebook post
"Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • June 18, 2012
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on June 7, 2012
Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.
Mostly False
By Bartholomew Sullivan • June 17, 2012
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on June 6, 2012 a television ad
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was "the deciding vote for the health care law."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2012
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on May 24, 2012 a debate on State of the State
"Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 10, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 8, 2012 an email to the news media
Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law.
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • June 1, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 3, 2012 a graphical tool on the campaign website
Says under Mitt Romney, "Medicare could end as we know it, leaving Julia with nothing but a voucher to buy insurance, which means $6,350 extra per year for a similar plan."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • May 24, 2012
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