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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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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
Sean Patrick Maloney
Sean Patrick Maloney
stated on August 3, 2017 a radio interview:
"Most people on Medicaid are kids, or seniors, or the disabled."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • August 23, 2017
Alex Castellanos
Alex Castellanos
stated on August 20, 2017 comments on ABC's 'This Week':
"(For) white working-class America, death rates among white men are up 20 percent."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 20, 2017
Florida Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
Florida Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
stated on August 10, 2017 a TV ad:
Says Jose Felix Diaz supports President Donald Trump's "plan to slash Medicare, charge older Americans an age tax and cut coverage for pre-existing conditions."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 14, 2017
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans
stated on August 5, 2017 a statement sent to the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
There are"thousands of Georgia workers that are misclassified as independent contractors," who lose benefits, including health care.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2017
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on July 9, 2017 a TV interview:
"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."
Mostly True
By Devi Shastri • August 9, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 an interview:
"You have almost half the counties in America that have one provider or no provider for insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges.  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 4, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on July 28, 2017 a statement:
Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2017
J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling
stated on July 28, 2017 a tweet:
Says Donald Trump was seen "looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 20, 2017 a Facebook live speech:
"In order to sell insurance in Florida there are over 40 separate individual conditions that must be covered. ... far beyond the essential health benefits included in Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 27, 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
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on July 22, 2017 Fox News interview:
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • July 23, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business:
"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."
False
By Chris Nichols • July 21, 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
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on July 5, 2017 a Facebook ad:
"Elizabeth Warren doesn't think Obamacare goes far enough: ‘The next step is single payer.' Does Sen. Nelson agree? He has in the past ... Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 19, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 4, 2017 a television interview:
"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2017
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 13, 2017 a video:
"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on July 14, 2017 a speech to the National Governors Association:
In Ohio, due to Medicaid expansion, "nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists ... leaving them without the care they need for months or even years."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 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
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