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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on April 2, 2009 a chain e-mail.
Claims that former Sen. Tom Daschle said, "Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
False
April 3, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 4, 2009 an interview on the Fox News Channel.
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 5, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 17, 2008 a speech in Roanoke, Va.
"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • December 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
If you're a small business and don't "adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
Barack Obama's plan calls for "mandates and fines for small businesses."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 a radio ad
McCain "has opposed stem cell research."
False
September 24, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 28, 2008 a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio.
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
False
By Bill Adair • February 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 Austin, Texas
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 31, 2007
"I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."
False
By Lisa Greene • October 31, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 9, 2007 Dearborn, Mich.
"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"
False
October 15, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 26, 2007 Hanover, N.H.
"I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 4, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 26, 2007 Hanover, N.H.
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 17, 2007 a comment to reporters in Tampa.
"What they will do is socialized medicine."
False
By Kris Hundley • September 18, 2007
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