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Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 in a news release:
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 in a television advertisement:
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2009
Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany
stated on September 9, 2009 in response to President Obama's health care address to Congress:
The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 in an address to a joint session of Congress:
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 10, 2009
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on September 1, 2009 in his radio program:
Van Jones "is an avowed, self-avowed radical revolutionary communist."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 in his radio program:
The government is "going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 8, 2009
Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on August 13, 2009 in an op-ed in the Washington Examiner:
"It took Obama six months to pick out a family dog," but he's "cramming health care reform down the country's throat in a fraction of that time."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 3, 2009
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on August 31, 2009 in an op-ed published in the Huffington Post:
"Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • September 2, 2009
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on August 25, 2009 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2009
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 10, 2009 in an interview with Rachel Maddow:
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 in a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 in an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall on health care:
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert, Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 29, 2009 in his radio show:
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • July 9, 2009
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 in a PBS interview.:
"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 9, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 in a Web ad:
"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on July 2, 2009 in a television ad:
Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . .  health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 6, 2009
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on June 17, 2009 in a press release on the House GOP's blog.:
The war spending bill "actually spends more money on the International Monetary Fund than on the war."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 23, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 10, 2009 in a column.:
Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 19, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 in a press release.:
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009
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