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VoteVets.org
VoteVets.org
stated on October 12, 2018 an ad
Says Rick Scott’s "hospital company stole millions, defrauding the military’s health care program."
True
By Amy Sherman • October 23, 2018
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 23, 2018 an op-ed for the Springfield News-Leader
Says a Josh Hawley lawsuit "would take away important prescription drug coverage for seniors through Medicare and end all of the consumer protections under the ACA."
True
By Hannah Archambault, Matthew Hall, Theo DeRosa • September 13, 2018
Evan Jenkins
Evan Jenkins
stated on March 20, 2018 a press release
West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 18, 2018 a press conference
Reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program "for six years saves $1 billion" and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 28, 2017 a press conference
"I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor."
True
By Matt Dietrich • October 10, 2017
Eric Schneiderman
Eric Schneiderman
stated on July 17, 2017 a speech at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine
"We have been able to cut New York’s uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population."
True
By Dan Clark • July 24, 2017
John Faso
John Faso
stated on July 15, 2017 an article in the Times Herald-Record
"We now have about one-third of New York’s population on Medicaid."
True
By Dan Clark • July 21, 2017
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans
stated on June 12, 2017 a campaign video
"I helped win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history. The government declined to pursue the case, so my firm did, and we recovered $324 million for taxpayers."
True
By Manuela Tobias • July 14, 2017
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 30, 2017 a town hall meeting
"Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 15, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on March 16, 2017 a CNN town hall
In New York state, "you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person" for health insurance.
True
By Dan Clark • March 31, 2017
Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Maloney
stated on March 16, 2017 remarks on the House floor
"More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas."  
True
March 24, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 an interview
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."
True
March 23, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 a listening session on health care
"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
True
By Lauren Carroll • March 13, 2017
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News
Says condoms "used to be tax-exempt here in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 13, 2017 a letter
The uninsured rate in California reached "a historic low of 7.4 percent in 2016."
True
By Chris Nichols • January 19, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 5, 2017 a tweet
The federal government is prohibited "from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens."
True
January 17, 2017
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on October 28, 2016 an ad
Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year."  
True
November 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate
"Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That's the highest we've ever been in our country."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 10, 2016
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
stated on April 20, 2016 a speech
"Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants."
True
By Joseph Cariz • July 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2016 a speech
"A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day, especially our older veterans."
True
By Sean Gorman • July 14, 2016
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