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Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019:

Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."

Mostly True

By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019

Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019

Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 in a radio interview:

Wisconsin has "the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care"

Half-True

By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018

Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 in a TV interview:

"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."

Mostly True

By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018

Bernie Sanders
stated on November 15, 2018 in Tweet announcing new bill:

Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."

Mostly False

By Colin Meyn • November 16, 2018

House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot "voted to cut health care for kids, affecting up to half the families at Cincinnati’s own Children’s Hospital."

Half-True

By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on September 17, 2018 in a poll:

"Tony Evers says that tax dollars should pay for the abortions just like they pay for tonsillectomies."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • September 26, 2018

Tony Evers
stated on August 27, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Scott Walker refused federal funds and "Wisconsin families now pay nearly 50% more than Minnesotans for the same health care."

Mostly False

By Eric Litke • September 7, 2018

JD Wooten
stated on August 24, 2018:

"My opponent, Rick Gunn, blocked the expansion of Medicaid — costing half a million people health insurance, including at least 23,000 veterans."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • September 5, 2018

Mike DeWine
stated on July 11, 2018 in a news conference:

On maintaining Medicaid expansion in Ohio as part of the Affordable Care Act

Full Flop

By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2018

For Our Future PAC
stated on July 2, 2018 in a website:

"Repealing the Affordable Care Act — and with it, Ohio’s Medicaid expansion — could cost Ohio more than 81,000 jobs, jeopardize nearly 1 million Ohioans’ health care coverage, and leave more than 220,000 Ohioans with mental illness or substance use disorders without insurance."

Half-True

By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2018

Mandy Cohen
stated on June 26, 2018 in a speech:

Indiana expanded Medicaid when Mike Pence was governor

Mostly True

By Paul Specht • July 9, 2018

Viral image
stated on July 3, 2018 in a meme shared on the Internet:

"More than 66% of ALL births in California are to illegals on Medi-Cal."

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2018

Dana Wachs
stated on April 11, 2018 in an interview:

Says Scott Walker "has turned down $1 billion of Medicaid money over the course of his tenure."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • June 15, 2018

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 10, 2018 in remarks at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation:

"Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home."

False

By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2018

Hakeem Jeffries
stated on April 29, 2018 in an interview on CNN:

President Donald Trump’s budget "threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid"

False

By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018

Ron Wyden
stated on March 29, 2018 in a tweet:

"Republicans in Congress are plotting to take away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."

False

By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2018

Heartland Institute
stated on January 22, 2018 in an op-ed in The Hill:

Work requirements "have been proven to help impoverished families move from dependency to self-sufficiency."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 26, 2018

Doug Jones
stated on September 27, 2017 in an interview:

Says Roy Moore "has advocated getting the federal government out of health care altogether, which means doing away with Medicaid, which means doing away with Medicare."

False

By John Kruzel • October 26, 2017

Matt Gaetz
stated on October 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Opioid crisis (is) the worst in ObamaCare expansion states!"

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • October 23, 2017

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