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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on March 18, 2019 a press release:
"It is estimated that more than 20 veterans die by suicide every day."
Mostly True
By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • April 24, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.:
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania:
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
John Hickenlooper
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 31, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:
"We got to almost universal coverage in health care in Colorado."
Mostly True
By Julianna Rennie • April 11, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on March 10, 2019 a town hall:
"We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • March 18, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 7, 2019 a tweet:
"A black woman in New York City is 12 times more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman."
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 2, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a town hall:
Prescription drugs "are nearly 20 percent of our health care costs now when you include hospital prescription drugs."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 22, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on January 6, 2019 a Facebook post:
Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs."
Mostly True
By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • February 7, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 3, 2018 a tweet:
"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2018
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 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
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 26, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 2, 2018
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp
stated on October 28, 2018 an op-ed in the Bismarck Tribune:
"President Donald Trump even referred to one of (Kevin) Cramer’s health care repeal bills as 'mean' because the bill gutted protections for North Dakotans with preexisting conditions."
Mostly True
By Dror Sharon • November 1, 2018
Linda Coleman
Linda Coleman
stated on October 23, 2018:
"George Holding has voted 13 times to deny Kevin, and the 300,000 people like him in the 2nd Congressional District, coverage" for their pre-existing conditions.
Mostly True
By Rashaan Ayesh • October 29, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on October 10, 2018 a campaign video:
Says Scott Walker supports "a health care plan that would gut protections for pre-existing conditions."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 18, 2018
Joe Donnelly
Joe Donnelly
stated on October 8, 2018 Indiana Senate debate:
"At (Mike Braun’s) company, the deductible on his health care is $10,000."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • October 11, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2018 campaign ad:
Says Dino Rossi "stripped" health care "from 45,000 children."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • September 18, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 10, 2018 a TV ad:
Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2018
Aftab Pureval
Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says Steve Chabot "voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions."  
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018
Joe Donnelly
Joe Donnelly
stated on August 13, 2018 Twitter video:
Says Mike Braun has supported two proposals and a lawsuit to end coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • August 20, 2018
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on June 26, 2018 a speech:
Indiana expanded Medicaid when Mike Pence was governor
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • July 9, 2018
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