Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Dan McCready
Dan McCready
stated on August 8, 2019 a tweet
Says "Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don't have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions."
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By Paul Specht • August 23, 2019
North Carolina Healthcare Association
North Carolina Healthcare Association
stated on July 7, 2019 in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer
Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services."
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By Elizabeth Thompson • July 20, 2019
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 a tweet
"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 20, 2019 a tweet
"30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost." 
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • June 24, 2019
Chris Coons
Chris Coons
stated on May 14, 2019 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Obamacare granted "the protection against preexisting condition discrimination that extended to more than 150 million Americans, folks who get their health insurance through their employer."
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By Julie Rovner • May 21, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 17, 2019 a news release
California is leading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.  
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By Samantha Young • April 25, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 26, 2019 a tweet
Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have "left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on March 12, 2019 a tweet
Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget "slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires."
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By Miriam Valverde • March 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event
Says President Donald Trump "came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event
"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
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By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
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February 21, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019
José Oliva
José Oliva
stated on January 30, 2019 AP legislative day in Tallahassee
Health care is the "No. 1 reason for bankruptcy."
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By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2019
Maria Cantwell
Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 a tweet
"7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 a Facebook post
"October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 a radio interview
Wisconsin has "the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care"  
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By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on October 10, 2018 campaign debate
"We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. ... We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero."
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By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 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."
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By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018
Ricardo Lara
Ricardo Lara
stated on October 24, 2018 full-page newspaper ads
As California's Insurance Commissioner, "Steve Poizner pledged to block immigrant children from ever getting MediCal health insurance."
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By Chris Nichols, Sami Soto • October 30, 2018
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