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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on August 14, 2009 the Rachel Maddow Show
Republicans Chuck Grassley, John Boehner and John Mica flip-flopped on providing end-of-life counseling for the elderly.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2009
stated on August 14, 2009 an interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Preventive care does not save the government money.
True
By Catharine Richert • August 17, 2009
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on August 12, 2009 a TV ad
The health care reform plan being proposed in Congress would mean "big tax increases."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 14, 2009
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 a chain e-mail
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 in a chain e-mail
Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits.
True
By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Sarah Palin
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."
False
By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall on health care
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert, Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
Michele Bachmann
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."
False
By Robert Farley • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
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."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 11, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 an interview with This Week.
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • August 10, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 a message posted on Facebook
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009
John Boehner
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."
False
By Robert Farley • August 7, 2009
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel
stated on July 29, 2009 a memo on the group's Web site.
Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 7, 2009
Paul Krugman
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."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 4, 2009 a news release
Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2009
Club for Growth
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.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on July 10, 2009 an email to supporters
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
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