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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview:
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 21, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 4, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning:
"Even the (Congressional Budget Office) says if you lower Medicare to allow 50 year olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 8, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on January 6, 2019 a Facebook post:
Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs."
Mostly True
By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • February 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 an interview on MSNBC:
"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019
José Oliva
José Oliva
stated on January 30, 2019 AP legislative day in Tallahassee:
Health care is the "No. 1 reason for bankruptcy."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2019:
On directing the attorney general to withdraw Wisconsin from pre-existing conditions lawsuit.
Full Flop
By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2019
Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 a tweet:
"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 a Facebook post:
"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on December 5, 2018 a news release:
"Democrats flip flop on pre-existing conditions."
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2018
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 3, 2018 a tweet:
"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 2, 2018 a tweet:
"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 3, 2018
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 a radio interview:
Wisconsin has "the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care"  
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 a radio interview:
Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched"  
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 21, 2018
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 a TV interview:
"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on October 24, 2018 a video posted to Facebook:
"We have lost more lives in the last two years" due to opioids "than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War."
True
By Douglas Soule • November 15, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 a radio interview:
Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 9, 2018
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on October 10, 2018 campaign debate:
"We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. ... We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero."
Half-True
By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on October 25, 2018 a debate:
"The Collins-Nelson bill will not protect pre-existing conditions. It has nothing to do with pre-existing conditions."
Mostly False
By Dylan Sherman • November 5, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 a TV ad:
Says Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot "voted to cut health care for kids, affecting up to half the families at Cincinnati’s own Children’s Hospital."
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018
Mike Braun
Mike Braun
stated on October 30, 2018 a debate:
Says he didn't support the lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Mostly False
By Dror Sharon • November 5, 2018
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