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Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on "Fox and Friends"
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2009
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on August 10, 2009 an interview with Rachel Maddow
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on August 25, 2009 a radio broadcast
"President Obama . . . wants to mandate circumcision."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 27, 2009
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on August 24, 2009 Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 a mailing
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 a mailing
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
George Will
George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009
Michael Steele
Michael Steele
stated on August 25, 2009 a Fox News interview
The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 25, 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
By Robert Farley • 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
By Robert Farley • 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
Dick Armey
Dick Armey
stated on August 13, 2009 an interview with Judy Woodruff
"If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • August 24, 2009
Orly Taitz
Orly Taitz
stated on August 2, 2009 an attachment to a lawsuit
Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
Pants on Fire!
By Robert Farley • August 21, 2009
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on August 20, 2009 an interview on Fox News
If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, "it leaves about 15 million people" who are uninsured.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 21, 2009
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 28, 2009 a speech on the House floor
"As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 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
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2009
J. James Rohack
J. James Rohack
stated on August 16, 2009 Fox News Sunday
Pregnant women trying to buy health insurance on their own are barred from maternity coverage because they have a "pre-existing condition."
True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2009
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