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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 his State of the Union speech:
"Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law."
True
By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 an interview:
"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 20, 2015 comments on 'Meet the Press':
The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • December 20, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2015 the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:
The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in France."
True
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 1, 2015 a tweet:
"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • December 7, 2015
Heather Moore
Heather Moore
stated on November 17, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary:
"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."  
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • December 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 1, 2015 a post on her campaign website:
"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2015
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on October 2, 2015 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • December 2, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 5, 2015 a radio interview:
"Probably less than 4 percent" of Wisconsin residents "are enjoying the subsidies" from Obamacare.
True
By Sarah Hauer • December 2, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on November 12, 2015 an interview:
"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • November 27, 2015
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:
After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."
Mostly False
By Andy East • November 24, 2015
Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto
stated on November 12, 2015 a broadcast of "Cavuto Coast to Coast" on Fox Business Network:
Taking all the money of the top 1 percent wouldn’t keep Medicare going for three years.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2015
Viral media reports
Viral media reports
stated on November 9, 2015 social media and in print:
Drinking champagne could help prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
False
By Nancy Badertscher • November 17, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
The United States is "the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on November 10, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"Obamacare isn't helping anyone."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015
Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
stated on November 3, 2015 a discussion on MSNBC's "Up with Steve Kornacki":
Obamacare insurance cooperative failures "should be expected" because they're like any business, and "when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2015 a speech.:
On the VA: "Over 300,000 veterans have died waiting for care."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • November 9, 2015
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 map:
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":
Because of Obamacare "people’s premiums ... are going up 35, 45, 55 percent."  
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • October 25, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News:
Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015
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