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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Raul Labrador
Raul Labrador
stated on May 5, 2017 a town hall event
"Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 8, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 4, 2017 blog headlines
Under the House Republican health plan, sexual assault is a pre-existing condition.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 5, 2017
Americas PAC
Americas PAC
stated on April 27, 2017 a radio ad
Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.
False
May 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 Twitter
"Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies to bail out donors"
False
By John Kruzel • May 4, 2017
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on May 4, 2017 remarks in 2009 and actions in 2017
On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2017
Robert Pittenger
Robert Pittenger
stated on May 2, 2017 a written statement
Says the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, "absolutely does not eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • May 4, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel
stated on May 1, 2017 a monologue on his show
"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal last night to not go along with that. They actually increased funding by $2 billion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2017
Margaret Hoover
Margaret Hoover
stated on May 2, 2017 a discussion on CNN
Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 an interview
Says of the GOP health care proposal, "pre-existing conditions are in the bill."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 1, 2017
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on April 15, 2017 an ad aired on radio and television
The conservative proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act "lowers premiums by giving New York the freedom to end Obamacare’s costly and ridiculous rules."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 22, 2017
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on March 14, 2017 a tweet
"For too long, Obamacare has caused high premiums and dismal coverage. ... Under Obamacare premiums in job-based coverage have increased by $3,775"
Mostly False
By Gary Garrison • April 13, 2017
Michael Kearns
Michael Kearns
stated on April 11, 2017 a press conference
There were "76 deaths in three years" at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • April 12, 2017
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on March 22, 2017 an email blast after meeting with President Trump
"Seven out of ten doctors are not taking any new Medicaid patients as lower reimbursement rates make it cost-prohibitive."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 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
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 a U.S. Senate floor speech
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
stated on March 26, 2017 comments on "Meet the Press"
Obamacare "is in a death spiral."
False
By Allison Graves • March 26, 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
David Price
David Price
stated on March 22, 2017 a report from his Congressional office
"Under the Republican health care repeal proposal North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 24, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 23, 2017 a statement on the 7th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
"The vast majority of marketplace enrollees have experienced no average premium hike at all."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 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
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