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Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann
stated on 2009-09-16 his television show "Countdown":
For middle-class families under the Baucus plan, "13 percent of what they make could be deducted directly from their paychecks . . . the so-called 'Max Tax.'"
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2009
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on 2009-09-16 an interview on Fox News:
Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2009
Health Care for America Now
Health Care for America Now
stated on 2009-09-15 a television advertisement:
Health insurance companies pay CEOs $24 million a year
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2009
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on 2009-09-14 a fundraising letter:
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2009-09-15 a floor speech:
The House of Representatives has never passed a resolution of disapproval to condemn a member's behavior.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • September 16, 2009
Howard Dean
Howard Dean
stated on 2009-09-13 remarks on NBC's Meet the Press:
"Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 15, 2009
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
stated on 2009-09-08 a column in Investor's Business Daily.:
The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."
False
By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009
Paul Hipp
Paul Hipp
stated on 2009-09-09 a YouTube video:
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 14, 2009
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on 2009-09-12 conservative blogs:
Photo of "tea party" protests shows crowd sprawling from Capitol to Washington Monument
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • September 14, 2009
Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany
stated on 2009-09-09 response to President Obama's health care address to Congress:
The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 11, 2009
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on 2009-09-10 a statement from the Minority Leader's office:
As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on 2009-08-24 a message forwarded to many people:
A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on 2009-09-09 a "myth and fact" news release:
"Nothing in any of the Democrat bills would require individuals to verify their citizenship or identity prior to receiving taxpayer-subsidized benefits."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-09-09 a speech to Congress:
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
stated on 2009-09-09 the audience at a joint session of Congress:
"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-09-09 an address to a joint session of Congress:
"It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-09-09 a speech to a joint session of Congress:
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to  kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-09-09 a speech to Congress:
Preventive care "saves money."
False
By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2009-09-09 a speech to Congress:
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2009
Matt Miller
Matt Miller
stated on 2009-09-08 a Washington Post op-ed:
"Switzerland and the Netherlands . . . cover all their citizens using private insurers, and they do so for much less cost."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2009
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