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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 11, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
"53 percent of Americans cut back on their health care in the last year because of costs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2009
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on June 8, 2009 an opinion piece.
Sixty-two percent of all personal bankruptcies are "caused by medical problems."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 11, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on January 7, 2009 an interview on MSNBC's Hardball.
"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • January 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 29, 2008 in a television ad
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 30, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 26, 2008 Waterloo, Iowa
If parents "don't have health insurance that Senator Obama wants them to have (for their children), they will be fined."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 26, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 22, 2008 a TV ad.
John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 22, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on April 28, 2008 a campaign stop at Miami children's hospital
"We spend a staggering amount of money on health care — over $2-trillion and almost twice as much as any other country per person."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 a television ad
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 Cleveland, Ohio
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 4, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"Hillary stood up for universal health care when almost no one else would, and kept standing till 6-million kids had coverage."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 8, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 17, 2007 a speech in Des Moines, Iowa.
Her health care plan will cost $110-billion in the first year, which can be paid for with savings.
Half-True
By Kris Hundley • September 18, 2007
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