Fact Check Posts – Page 26

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."

By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009

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."

By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009

Howard Dean
stated on August 9, 2009 an appearance on ABC's "This Week":

"There's no rationing in any of these bills."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2009

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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009

Progressive Change Campaign Committee
stated on August 19, 2009 their Web site:

76 percent of Americans want a public health care option.

By Catharine Richert • August 20, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • August 12, 2009

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009

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."

By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009

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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009

Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 a news release:

Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009

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.

By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009

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.

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2009

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."

By Catharine Richert • August 3, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 a press conference:

Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 16, 2009

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 12, 2009

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."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009

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