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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2009 an interview on Meet the Press
"Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs."
True
By Bill Adair • September 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress
Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
Preventive care "saves money."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2009 a forum with supporters
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall on health care
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting in New Hampshire
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009
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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.
Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 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."
Mostly True
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 July 22, 2009 a press conference
Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
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