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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Paul Hipp
Paul Hipp
stated on September 9, 2009 a YouTube video
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2009
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 a chain e-mail
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 an interview with This Week.
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
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By Catharine Richert • August 10, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
Forty-five percent of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a speech on health care reform
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
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By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a news conference.
"14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 24, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 25, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on June 22, 2009 a column
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on May 14, 2009 a news release
"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 8, 2008 a TV ad
John McCain "took on the drug industry."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa.
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Mostly True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 8, 2008
Florida Consumer Action Network
Florida Consumer Action Network
stated on April 29, 2008 a press conference in Tampa
"For what we spend in just one week in Iraq, 800,000 children could get health insurance for an entire year."
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • May 7, 2008
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on October 3, 2007
"With the resources it takes to execute just over three months of the Iraq war, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed."
Mostly True
October 15, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
Half of all personal bankruptcies in America "are caused by medical bills."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2007
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