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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
By Robert Farley • 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
By Robert Farley • 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
By David Baumann • 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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