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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 22, 2009 an interview with the Washington Post
"I didn't campaign on a public option."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 23, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on November 30, 2009 a press release
Under the Democratic health plan, families "will be forced to spend an additional $2,100 a year to keep their current health care."
Mostly False
December 1, 2009
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 20, 2009 MSNBC's the 'Ed Show'
"Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 27, 2009
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on November 19, 2009 a news release
The Senate health care bill is longer than Tolstoy's 'War and Peace.'
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2009
Ed Rendell
Ed Rendell
stated on November 12, 2009 the 'Rachel Maddow Show'
A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2009
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on November 12, 2009 her show on MSNBC
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 12, 2009 a note on Facebook
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 13, 2009
Louise Slaughter
Louise Slaughter
stated on November 7, 2009 a statement on the House floor
Women pay 48 percent more for health insurance.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • November 9, 2009
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett
stated on November 1, 2009 an interview on ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'
There is majority support for the Democrats' health care plans.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2009
Senior Citizens League
Senior Citizens League
stated on October 1, 2009 a letter to members
A "massive" federal computer network will make your medical records available to "millions of people" with a "complete lack of privacy and confidentiality," while doctors and hospitals who don't take part face "stiff penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2009
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
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on October 8, 2009 his radio program.
"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."
Mostly False
October 14, 2009
Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 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 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 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
September 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 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
September 10, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 28, 2009 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
September 8, 2009
Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
stated on August 13, 2009 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
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on August 25, 2009 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
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