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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Tony Evers
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
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
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
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
November 1, 2018
Kevin Cramer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 26, 2018
Bloggers
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
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
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
Sydney Batch
Sydney Batch
stated on October 23, 2018 a TV ad
John Adcock and Republicans’ plan for health care "would get rid of coverage altogether for thousands of families and raise premiums on the rest of us."
False
By Paul Specht • October 23, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on August 23, 2018 a news release
"Black lung cases are at a 25-year high."
True
By Douglas Soule • October 23, 2018
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