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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on October 30, 2018 a campaign ad:

Says New York Rep. John Faso "cast the deciding vote" to try to kill health care protections provided by Obamacare.

Mostly False

By Stephen Koff • November 5, 2018

Mark Harris
stated on November 22, 2018:

"Liberal Democrats" who back Dan McCready "cut $716 BILLION from Medicare to fund their healthcare scheme: Obamacare."

Mostly False

By Rashaan Ayesh • November 3, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on November 1, 2018 a public forum:

Says Walker "wants to get rid of" students’ ability to stay on their parents’ health insurance.

False

By Eric Litke • November 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 26, 2018 a campaign rally:

"The Democrat plan would just obliterate Medicare and terminate Medicare Advantage ... seniors who have been paying for this for years (and) will not be taken care of anymore."

False

By Manuela Tobias • November 2, 2018

Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 26, 2018 a campaign ad:

Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.

Mostly True

By D.L. Davis • November 2, 2018

Heidi Heitkamp
stated on October 28, 2018 an op-ed in the Bismarck Tribune:

"President Donald Trump even referred to one of (Kevin) Cramer’s health care repeal bills as 'mean' because the bill gutted protections for North Dakotans with preexisting conditions."

Mostly True

By Dror Sharon • November 1, 2018

Kevin Cramer
stated on October 26, 2018 U.S. Senate debate:

"Protections on pre-existing conditions have been there since the 1970s."

False

By Manuela Tobias • November 1, 2018

Jon Tester
stated on October 10, 2018 in an ad:

"Matt Rosendale supports plans that don’t have to cover (pre-existing conditions)."

True

By John Kruzel • October 31, 2018

Linda Coleman
stated on October 26, 2018 a town hall:

"Seniors can be charged five times what anybody else is charged for health care for pre-existing conditions" under the Republican health care bill.

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • October 30, 2018

Martha McSally
stated on October 24, 2018 a campaign ad:

Says she’s "leading the fight" to "force insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions."

Mostly False

By Miriam Valverde • October 30, 2018

John Culberson
stated on October 25, 2018 a TV ad:

Says Texas Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher contradicted herself on her health care position by saying "we need universal health care."

False

By Samantha Putterman • October 30, 2018

Ricardo Lara
stated on October 24, 2018 full-page newspaper ads:

As California's Insurance Commissioner, "Steve Poizner pledged to block immigrant children from ever getting MediCal health insurance."

Half-True

By Chris Nichols, Sami Soto • October 30, 2018

Troy Balderson
stated on October 20, 2018 a television interview:

"A lot of people are still dealing with lack of access to health care. There are counties out there, in my former Senate district, that didn’t have doctors and providers."

Half-True

By Stephen Koff • October 30, 2018

Linda Coleman
stated on October 23, 2018:

"George Holding has voted 13 times to deny Kevin, and the 300,000 people like him in the 2nd Congressional District, coverage" for their pre-existing conditions.

Mostly True

By Rashaan Ayesh • October 29, 2018

Peter Roskam
stated on October 22, 2018 a debate appearance:

Says the Washington Post fact-checked a charge he opposed pre-existing condition protections for health insurance "and gave that Four Pinocchios."

Pants on Fire!

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 28, 2018

George Holding
stated on October 22, 2018 a debate:

"Obamacare raised premiums by 100 percent and after that 91 percent of the people were covered, but we’re all paying 100 percent more."

False

By Bill McCarthy • October 26, 2018

Leah Vukmir
stated on October 19, 2018 a debate:

Says Tammy Baldwin’s "Medicare for All" plan means senior citizens would "no longer have" Medicare.

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2018

Bloggers
stated on October 11, 2018:

If you get a flu shot, you're "poisoning yourself."

Pants on Fire!

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 25, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on October 12, 2018 a rally in Lebanon, Ohio:

Says a recent opioid bill that reached his desk had "very little Democrat support."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2018

North Carolina Republican Party
stated on October 23, 2018 an ad campaign:

Democrats pledged to "force all North Carolinians into a single-payer health insurance scheme" that would cost $72 billion.

False

By Paul Specht • October 23, 2018

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