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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on September 27, 2017 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 18, 2017 a tweet
Insurance companies "have made a fortune with Obamacare."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
Mostly True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 16, 2017 a White House cabinet meeting
"The cost-sharing reductions (were) a gift (that) they gave the insurance companies."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 18, 2017
Ohioans Against Deceptive Rx Ballot Issue
Ohioans Against Deceptive Rx Ballot Issue
stated on May 23, 2017 a campaign ad
"A California health care CEO is promising to reduce our prescription drug costs."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • October 13, 2017
Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices
Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices
stated on August 29, 2017 a campaign video
An Ohio ballot issue would address the fact that "we’ve gone from paying about $100 for Epipens to over $600 ... We don’t have a choice but to pay it and the drug companies know it."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • October 13, 2017
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
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on October 4, 2017 a Senate floor speech
"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 22, 2017 a letter to a constituent
Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 18, 2017 a website
"The soda tax can make a difference by reducing consumption of unhealthy soda pop and sugary beverages."
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • October 2, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 25, 2017 an interview
"California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable."  
Mostly False
September 29, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 27, 2017 an interview
"We have one senator who’s a ‘yes’ vote ... but he’s in the hospital. And he’s a ‘yes’ vote. So we can’t do it by Friday. So we have the votes" to pass a health care bill. 
False
By John Kruzel • September 28, 2017
Feministing
Feministing
stated on June 21, 2017 a web post
"Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control."
Pants on Fire!
By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 27, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview
The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."  
False
September 22, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 21, 2017 a tweet
The Graham-Cassidy health care bill does "include coverage of pre-existing conditions."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 21, 2017
Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview on CNN
Under the Graham-Cassidy health insurance bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 17, 2017 an interview
"Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 20, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 14, 2017 a Facebook Live town hall
Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."  
False
September 20, 2017
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on August 30, 2017 a telephone town hall
"The Affordable Care Act is the single largest tax increase in my lifetime."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 a CNN town hall broadcast
"We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2017
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