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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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John Carter
John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America
"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show
"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on August 9, 2009 an appearance on ABC's "This Week"
"There's no rationing in any of these bills."
False
August 25, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on August 18, 2009 a press release
The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."
False
August 25, 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 19, 2009 an appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show
"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
stated on August 19, 2009 their Web site
76 percent of Americans want a public health care option.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 12, 2009 her Facebook page
A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."
False
August 13, 2009
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 27, 2009 a statement on the House floor
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."
False
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
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 23, 2009 an op-ed for National Review
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
False
August 7, 2009
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on August 5, 2009 a blog posting.
During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 a news release
Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on August 4, 2009 a TV ad
The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the "socialized" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would cost more than $22,000.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Dan Lungren
Dan Lungren
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009
Russ Carnahan
Russ Carnahan
stated on July 20, 2009 a town hall meeting in Missouri.
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 3, 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
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 14, 2009 an Internet ad.
"A new poll shows 62 percent support the president's plan to reform health care. That means ... letting you choose between keeping the private insurance you have and a public health insurance plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on June 11, 2009 an op-ed.
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 12, 2009
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on May 12, 2009 an e-mail
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009
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